It did. But a wiser politician might have recovered. What is the icing on the cake is that Cruz is STILL in back rooms working to manipulate the delegate selection process while Trump speaks in person to tens of thousands of voters, every day.
It might be the CO and WY delegate selections that were the point of no return.
A wiser politician (with wiser supporters) wouldn't have banked so heavily on nothing but increasingly frothy bathroom-related hysteria, these crucial past few days. ;)
He needed to apologize for NY Values and travel around acting like an actual person - eating pizza, dirty water hotdogs, beef on a wick, salted pretzels, pastrami and egg creams and knocking off the phony cadences, dramatic pauses and deep-throated explosions on certain words (”EXACTLY!”) and connecting in a real way like Trump does. Trump may be a billionaire but he comes across as a guy from Queens.