it seems that the ripple case had quite an effect on the xrp price and some exchanges closed their xrp trade, So I think XRP is struggling enough to climb higher, but then again we don't know what will happen someday.
It was giving a very big impact on the price of ripple but in another case, there are so many ripple investors were jumping to the XLM as an alternative solution to be used as a replacement for ripple.
more exchange sites will be closing their service for ripple soon. The blockchain.com already suspended its service too.
People are feeling stressed to see that happens. That's why they were replacing their ripple with XLM.