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To clarify, we likely wouldn't end as a species.
Dinosaurs were ended with a roughly 10-15km meteroirite hitting earth, and causing months of distortions and damage to the ecosystem that disrupted their way of life enough that they starved or died of other causes.
They were not nearly as adaptable as we are in modern times.
To be sure, a lot of progress would die, and life would be greatly disrupted, but we, as a species, would almost certainly survive a similar event.
If we humans did not chronically overestimate self and underestimate risk then we'd all choose to kill ourselves. Individuals can be smart. But, when pressured or at scale we're really fucking stupid.
It wasn't months. It was centuries of upheaval before systems restabilized, double digit human generations.
Sure, the meteror's impact wouldn't kill all of humanity. The subsequent choices of the few that remained almost certainly would. We're fragile, ordinary creatures that just got here and immediately set about killing one another and the planet itself.
That is certainly one way it could go.
A very human response.
The Deccan Traps probably didn't help either.
Oh, by the way, didn't the Phlegraean Fields start acting up recently..?