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>>9612997
Possible, but extremely unlikely.
Was popularized in the 1920s. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Who_Shrank

The actual story can be read at http://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article874

The obvious problem is the implication that there are no "elementary" particles. The universe continues to show ever-increasing detail, like the Mandelbrot Set, when examined more closely.

I can think of at least two stories which go in the "opposite" direction (enlarging the hero into the next level "up") and two more in which (though some topological anomaly) the scale is "circular" -- both shrinking and expanding bring you back into our "own" cosmos.

The image is from a story in which the writer got Relativity completely backwards. Objects approaching the speed of light GREW (in all 3 dimensions) rather than shrank. The protagonist bursts through into a macroverse.

And, of course, there's "Men in Black".