Bitcoin has been here for several years now so I don't think it is coming to an end considering that it was on hype few months ago. The rates might be depressing to look at in the past few months but BTC's haven't gone down to $5k rate as far as I know so those who were able to have BTC last year are still in profit this year. The rates these days might be sad news but I'm praying that it will surpass atleast the $10k mark this holiday season.
Most of early years of BTC scheme was not active, it was mostly for generating coin pool for whales and distributing early coins.