we may say that what he did was one of the causes why their is price dropped because it make some investor doubtful how stable bitcoin right now but we can not say that it wont regain because bitcoin has many investor and for me, they are just observing right now what will happened next..
Investors aren't doubtful man
You mean to say about the panic newbie investors on cryptos right. Newbies are a targetted one for bitcoin. Cheap alts, ETH and Ripple are mostly getting power with the newbie investors. This one you can understand if you see the price changes percentage on any coin.
I did not find the bitcoin goes to big in the market since this year starting onwards because whales intervention to pull down the crypto currencies. To say the fact, banking will not allow anyone to boom with alternative solution for bitcoins.