I hate to say it, but conspiracy movements like QAnon rarely "end." Some of the precursor scams and tropes that fed into Q have been going for decades. People will drift away, but the core values of Q - distrust of authority and need for enemies to be punished - are eternal.
That's not to say that we shouldn't be pushing back against it, exposing its falsehoods, and trying to help people get out of it. We should be. But expecting that work to lead to Q "ending" will only lead to disappointment.
Expecting Q to "end" implies that people will suddenly stop thinking they have powerful enemies, and will stop looking for order in chaos. That's never going to end. It might just go by a different name.
Ultimately, we can end the involvement of individual people in Q. But conspiracy theories are as natural to humans as breathing. We all want answers. We all want to feel special and important and like we have control. And Q is very good at doing all those things.
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