I completely agree with you. I think that bitcoin getting below such a stable price barrier near $6k at the same time when news about this mad guy appeared cannot be a coincidence.
I think everyone and everything was looking for a direction. Our special friend Craig provided it. Everyone else followed through. If the price had sat at $6500 until it suddenly took off again a couple of years later, that would not have been normal behaviour.
Before this fall many absolute shitcoins were still crazily high. Now we're finally seeing some actual purging.