I am very sorry for you since you made a huge loss. Ripple probably going up again until 2019 but I am not confident it will reach your target of $3 or more.
Since companies can use the technology of ripple without using ripples coin there might not be much use in future. Depending on how many companies will adopt the technology including the coin you might get away without losses.

Just to help you for further investments, be sure that the price didn't rice very quickly in a very short time. Since that's always a sign of a total overbought asset which might crash soon in the same speed it went up.
If you are willing to do some research you will find following Situation:

According to the Charts, ripples were traded at less than $0,01 in April 2017 and was suddenly up to $3 in less than a year. 30,000% return should make you very very careful....