AITAH for telling my friend he would not be as popular as Luigi Mangione for the same act?

At the bar last night, my friend went on a drunken rant about capitalism and healthcare in America and jokingly said he wished he had the guts to do what Luigi Mangione did, especially seeing how much revered Luigi became. He added that he and Luigi were the same “type” and that he would have probably enjoyed the same type of stardom “if not more.”

I guess my face revealed that I found that slightly ridiculous because he asked me what I found so funny. The truth serum was running through my veins and so I told him my honest thoughts: I didn’t think he was smart enough to pull it off and that, while Luigi had “it,” my friend didn’t. He got mad and asked what I meant by that. Already standing in my own grave, I kept digging. I told him that people found him awkward and cringe, and that in high school a lot of people found him to be a loser. I said I just couldn’t help thinking that if he killed the UHC CEO, people would have seen it as a tragic murder rather than a messianic moment merely because of the optics. He called an Uber without another word and didn’t pay for my drink as promised.

He’s really angry at me still and hasn’t been answering my calls. One of his friends texted me this morning and told me I was really rude for saying all of that, and said he couldn’t fathom why I would say it when the friend clearly has a crush on me. I didn’t want to stroke another man’s ego after a lifetime of doing it, and while I wish I didn’t say the bit about his reputation in high school, I stand by my statement that he wouldn’t have had the same reception as Luigi Mangione. Am I an asshole for thinking and saying that?

TL;DR friend said he would have been able to be Luigi Mangione, I disagreed