If he had stopped with “You only earn the position of speaker of the House if you can get the votes. Mr. McCarthy doesn’t have the votes today, he will not have the votes tomorrow, and he will not have the votes next week, next month, next year,” that would have been fine. But he did go a bit overboard and hung himself.
Earning the votes goes for others besides McCarthy, too, though. That isn’t going real well.
Gaetz has shot himself in the foot.