Well, if that was indeed that, Boris Johnson’s final Prime Minister’s Questions fizzled out with a whimper.
The outgoing PM plans to open a no-confidence Commons debate on Monday, where he will no doubt attempt to rally weary backbenchers with rousing rhetoric.
But he dropped several heavy hints that he might not appear for next Wednesday’s final high noon PMQs showdown with Keir Starmer.
While the weekly confrontation remains pencilled in, Johnson could end up skipping the session if he has to travel abroad - say, for the funeral of assassinated Japanese ex-PM Shinzo Abe.
Or if the final two candidates in the race for the Tory leadership stitch up a deal to deny party members their run-off vote, thus fast-tracking a replacement into No10 within days.
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"The next leader of my party may be elected by acclamation so it's possible this will be our last confrontation," Johnson told the Labour leader.
"It's perfectly true that I leave not at a time of my choosing - absolutely true.”
Insisting he was “proud of the leadership that I have given”, the Partygate PM claimed: "I will be leaving soon with my head held high."
In truth, this latest and possibly last episode of PMQs was a lacklustre affair - despite the efforts of two Scottish wildcards from renegade nationalist party Alba.
Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey were booted out of the chamber in furious scenes as they ranted about a referendum.
The stunt will no doubt get them on TV north of the border but it won’t have persuaded potential independence enthusiasts from Scottish politics’ moderate wing.
In highly unusual scenes, mild-mannered Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle tore into the pair and summoned the Serjeant-at-Arms to remove them before the main event got underway.
Johnson was squeezed between his loyal deputy Dominic Raab and one of the leading candidates to replace him, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, as PMQs began three minutes later.
Backbench Conservatives delivered their leader several helpful full tosses outside off stump which he duly clubbed over the boundary rope.
But even this most colourful, energetic and enthusiastic of leaders looked like the fight had drained from him along with the power as he fell victim to last week’s brutally effective Tory coup.
Desperate to point to a legacy, Vote Leave figurehead Johnson insisted: “There are people around the world who hope that this will be the end of Brexit … they're wrong and we're going to show them they're wrong."
Starmer, the ex-Shadow Brexit Secretary who led calls for a second EU referendum but is now committed to “making Brexit work”, looked across the Despatch Box in pity at his soon-to-be-former foe.
Even the PM’s tortured claim that any of the eight Conservative hopefuls would "wipe the floor" with "Captain Crasheroony Snoozefest" Starmer failed to elicit much response.
It’s nearly over for Johnson.
The expensively upholstered curtains on his dying premiership can’t be drawn quickly enough.
