Is this the end of Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential campaign?

On the eve of the first GOP presidential debate, Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign pretty much ended. It ended because "Ramaswamy then accused the government of infiltrating agents onto the 9/11 flights that crashed into the World Trade Center." H/T: Ed Morrissey/HotAir

Quoting from the article:

During one of his "truth" monologues at the Lincoln Dinner, Ramaswamy told the crowd, "We can handle the truth about what really happened on January 6." As the bus rolled north, I asked him: What is the truth about January 6? "I don’t know, but we can handle it," he said. "Whatever it is, we can handle it. Government agents. How many government agents were in the field? Right?"
Then, suddenly, he was talking about 9/11. "I think it is legitimate to say how many police, how many federal agents, were on the planes that hit the Twin Towers. Maybe the answer is zero. It probably is zero for all I know, right? I have no reason to think it was anything other than zero. But if we’re doing a comprehensive assessment of what happened on 9/11, we have a 9/11 commission, absolutely that should be an answer the public knows the answer to.
Well, if we’re doing a January 6 commission, absolutely, those should be questions that we should get to the bottom of,” he said. "'Here are the people who were armed. Here are the people who are unarmed.' What percentage of the people who were armed were federal law-enforcement officers? I think it was probably high, actually. Right?"
Ramaswamy was already in trouble for his comments about Israel and ending the war in Ukraine rather than winning the war in Ukraine. This is the interview that initially got Ramaswamy in trouble:

After getting himself into trouble, Ramaswamy told CNN that the Atlantic misquoted him. The bad news for Ramaswamy is that the Atlantic produced the audiotape:

That's where a deep hole turned into a bottomless pit. A deep hole is trouble. A bottomless pit is essentially Game. Set. Match. Championship. There's no returning from the bottomless pit.

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