President Joe Biden’s closest allies and campaign officials are reportedly admitting in private that they believe the 81-year-old has no chance of winning the presidential election as they panic over how to get him to quit so he doesn’t drag down the rest of the ticket for the party.

NBC News said that those the network talked to said that they see his chances of winning “as zero” and his negative impact on other Democrat candidates “growing.”

“He needs to drop out,” a Biden campaign official said. “He will never recover from this.”

The overwhelming majority of voters no longer believe that Biden is mentally fit to be president following his disastrous debate performance late last month against former President Donald Trump.

A subsequent ABC News interview and live press conference have done nothing to stop the growing chorus of Democrat lawmakers who are calling on him to drop out of the race.

The report said that “widespread” sentiment within his own campaign and the outside organizations supporting it is that he needs to step down.

“No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path,” a second source working to re-elect Biden told NBC News.

Other sources told the publication the same thing but they all requested anonymity because they didn’t want to be blamed for “further damaging” Biden.

A top Democrat presidential campaign strategist said that various data points were flashing red warning lights for the campaign and that Biden and his team are intentionally ignoring them.

“We have this window and the White House is just running out the clock, which is so selfish,” the person said. “We’re all waiting around for Joe Biden to f*** up again, which is not a great position to be in.”

As fundraising begins to start drying up for Biden, his own campaign is starting to conduct polling to see how Vice President Kamala Harris fares in a one-on-one matchup against Trump.