For a while when he was at his peak he was making a boatload of money. Hopefully he didn’t blow it all on the Blaze and he can fade into obscurity with a comfortable nest egg. His career as a pundit is over.
Well, spending something like $60K on George Washington's compass didn't help (a drafting compass, not a direction finding compass). If you can stand to watch the video, you will notice that Stabby The Clown was talking about stabbing people long before Trump got into politics.
Icarus Syndrome. If he stuck to investigative and explanatory journalism (e.g., his pieces on Fabian Socialism, etc.), he’d be raking in the loot. Nobody else with a major audience was doing that and he did it pretty well. But that’s a niche media product, and it has to fit into a larger platform. Beck ditched Fox and tried to set up his own platform.
Being a control freak, a conspiracist, a contrarian, a hypochondriac, an alcoholic with ADHD and a member of a numerically small religious group doesn’t suggest someone capable of reading the tea leaves and producing content that will attract a broad audience— large enough to produce sustained advertising dollars.
In short, the boy blew himself up.