Either way, I know I’m late to the game, but is it still too late? What may be my best options moving forward??
The best and only option for someone who actually believes in Bitcoin is to garner more knowledge about the network so as to steady themselves whilst they invest, Bitcoin investment can be a really tricky one, with all the correction phases it leaves many people wrongly regretting why they had invested in the first place, thus what you should do is to go back in time (history), and study more about its price, development and other whatnots.
Having said that, I wouldn't call it a "party" of any sort, it kinda makes it sound like a "get rich quick" thing, which it is not, I'm afraid I must add this, if you have the mindset of basically just coming into the network to make quick profits, then you had better not come in the first place, Bitcoin is a long term project, and it requires a strong amount of patience, it doesn't matter when you join, what matters is that you understand just exactly what the network is all about and what it offers its users that has made them stay this long in the network and wanting to stay even longer.