I honestly don't even think it's that crazy to personally believe that being sued had some impact on the suicide, getting sued sucks as it's a long, stressful, and expensive process. If you're already not doing great mentally a lawsuit is going to do nothing but exacerbate pretty much every problem you've got going on. That being said, it really does seem to be an ego thing that caused him to latch onto it so hard and refuse to let go and that I can't really have any sympathy for. It was outright false that there was a massive settlement payout that bankrupted Apollo, and he was told that and told that they just wanted a retraction and an apology. Would that really have been such a painful thing to do? Is it really worse than a couple years and a million bucks down the drain?
Maybe this story will end ironically, with Jobst killing himself and explicitly blaming the legal loss for it. A modern classic exploring hubris and delusions of grandeur, except the framing device is something so petty as playing video games really fast.