I think Elon Musk can possible manipulate crypto market, because many richman like Elon can invest in crypto and hodl them and also can manipulate the price. Elon Musk have big influence in crypto world, because anything he announce something happen in the market.
Yeah, when tesla made their announcement, bitcoin was around 42k or so and suddenly went to over 48k in a day I would give him credits for 42k to over 50k and that's it, anything over 50k was still the people who wanted to buy bitcoin and insanely hyped about it so they bought and increased the price. That's what I think he deserves to get recognition.
I however do not give him the blame during this fall neither, sure he had a big play on the initial drop, we weren't at 60k+ neither, we were a bit over 50k and dropped under 50k and that was probably what Elon started but that's about it, rest was other news and people who get panic and sold and also there were tone of liquidations that caused the huge drop as well so it wasn't just him.