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Is killing all the main characters midway through a novel barring one and switching perspective to said survivor a good idea?

I want to do a MGR:R style ending where the main antagonist doesn’t really show up until the 11-th hour, does a big speech and then gets defeated shortly afterwards but now I realised that the way the final confrontation is set up it really doesn’t make sense for the antagonist to be defeated.

So now I have basically thought up three options.

>power through anyway and try to make it work
>have the book end in complete failure and maybe write book two sometime later
>scrap the project and try making something else.