This was always going to be a brutal session of Prime Minister's Questions for Liz Truss. But this went beyond that.
Ms Truss could not be in a weaker position after she sacked her ally and friend Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor and was forced to reverse the vast majority of the entire platform she was elected on, having tanked the economy.
Against a backdrop of growing calls for her resignation from furious Tory MPs and reports of an avalanche of letters being handed in to Conservative backbench chairman Sir Graham Brady, a weak and wounded Ms Truss gingerly stepped out for another pummelling in the Commons today.
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Most people believe she will never recover from the position she is in, with historically bad polling and open rebellion in her party and the reaction of her MPs as she entered the chamber today will have done nothing to change this view. Normally a Prime Minister is roared into the Commons but today the tone of Tories was indifferent, bordering on angry.
With all this in mind, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had plenty to aim at, but the sheer brutality of his opening question effectively finished the contest before it had really got going.
Referring to a biography currently being written about the hapless PM, Mr Starmer said: "A book is being written about the Prime Minister's time in office, apparently it's going to be out by Christmas - is that the release date of the title?"
The question was met with uproarious laughter around the chamber. This is a Prime Minister who has now become a figure of ridicule. But the onslaught was not over.
The Labour leader was ruthless in his destruction of Ms Truss' brief time in power and the abject chaos that has surrounded it. Summing up neatly he said: "The only mandate she'd ever had was from the members opposite, it was a mandate built on fantasy economics and it ended in disaster. The country has nothing to show for it except the destruction of the economy and the implosion of the Tory Party."
Things became almost pantomime-like as a booming Starmer listed the remarkable number of u-turns already carried out by the flagging Truss government, with many behind him chanting "gone" with each measure mentioned.
Throughout the bruising session Ms Truss tried to fight back but her words felt weak and deeply unconvincing. In response to questions about her future she muttered that she was a "fighter and not a quitter."
Based on this performance and reports of the movements of her own MPs - this is a decision that may soon be taken out of her hands.
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