He provided plenty of ammo for the enemedia to turn well-meaning low-IQ people against him; he shouldn’t have played their game.
What’s that old saying? “Never wage a war against someone who buys ink by the barrel”. In the end, he was probably beaten by a Chinese Virus and the enemedia working for the democrats. But he did call it a hoax. That was a blunder. Obama might have been able to recover from a blunder like that but I don’t think he would have made it.