Yeah, walking away from the spotlight to join the real world is hard, fame is addictive. I just read that he had to resign his Board position on March For Our Lives because his mouth was starting to negatively impact "the movement".
The slap down he got when he started trying to leverage his fame and what he thought was power was apparently pretty humbling. A 20 year old, one issue kid isn't going to have much fun when he has to join the real world. People don't buy #GoodPillow for the celebrity behind it. When he didn't get a rise out of Lindell, in fact Lindell just yawned Hogg realized him piling on is as meaningless as he he is.
I feel sorry for the the kid, he has been used, now his shelf life has come to an end and he realizes he has become as disposable as any useful idiot. You are right. He'll be back when it suits someone else's purposes. Monica Lewinsky was a big celebrity until she wasn't, sad to see how she was used.