This was said several times like after the Mt.Gox hack. There were lots of fudders like we have now the situation, calling out Bitcoin would be dead. The future proved them wrong and so it will be now most likely again. I know there ist no guarantee of this but it wouldn't surprise me.
Bitcoin got more famous now during the hype, the weak hands left this market and new strong hands came in. And after all it's a great advantage of the current BTC price not to cause high transaction fees as we had it in december.