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Maybe I am missing some obvious third option, but I think there are only two main possible outcomes at the end of all this several years hence:
The normally reliable rate of young people turning Republican as they age and get settled in life has dropped to basically 0, so the GOP is basically stuck with the ones they've got and their election-rigging chicanery, and both situations ratchet a little less to their benefit with every passing year. They haven't won the popular vote for president in 20 years, and if gerrymandering went away they would lose control of congress irrevocably overnight.
The bad thing is that I think a lot of Republican politicians are aware of this. It might be part of why the ones of them that aren't resigning seem so comfortable with accelerating fascism. In the first case, their careers will end in useless humiliation that attaches to them personally, and they'll have to find a real job.
As much as I want to believe this, unfortunately this is not true.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/12/20/why-donald-trump-is-gaining-ground-with-young-voters
I think there are three things going on here.