There have been multiple companies who have gone through public image issues that have survived, but never regained their original status in the market.
The thing that it has been with Tesla is the company value never made sense and it was driven by hype for Elon and his "genius vision". With that facade going away the stock should continue to adjust to closer to other comparable car companies. Even recently they had a trailing P/E ratio of 121. That's crazy with only so few things in their product pipeline that we know about.
So the question now is how does the new public perception impact any new products they launch in the near term and how do they recover the confidence of the consumers? Not saying that it can't be done.
Honestly when Pete Davidson first said that I was like idk maybe but the further we get away from that interview I'm 100% convinced.