“What I said, is that this probably seemed like the end of the line to her when she was turned down and probably saw no other options.”
It is the end. If you don’t get tenure, you are terminated. You typically have one chance to reapply and given 12 months to fix the deficiencies on your CV, but Bishop may have been on her last review. I don’t know.
You can always try for a job at some other place. But I think that times are tough for that.