Or, you know, it could be something simple and not a conspiracy at all. If Musk didn't attack every last person who says anything critical about him, even calling one of them a pedo in a public forum, there wouldn't be nearly as much animosity towards him. He has 100% brought this down on himself, he can not blame anyone else.

The regular auto industry is likely to crush Tesla within a few years, regardless of how successful they are with the Model 3. They don't need to take shots at the CEO to achieve that, they're going to do it through bringing their own competing products to market and leveraging their own hard-won experience building shitloads of cars.