C’mom. Had it not been for Gingrich, Santorum would have won MI and OH. Gingrich was tossed out of Congress by his own colleagues.
You have no way of knowing that, and indeed, it's likely that a lot of Newt supporters would simply have sat out.
Newt was tossed out of the Speakership (not Congress) by his own colleagues because they didn't like that he wasn;t going along to get along like a RINO. Grief, you people really don't know what you're talking about, do you?