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This doesn't hold up to a cursory analysis of Carlsen's rating. You can see Carlsen's historical ELO score on FIDE's website and look at it year over year and the difference between Carlsen and the #2, #3, #4, etc... is pretty consistent and very impressive. Usually the difference between a player ranked N and a player ranked N + 1 is about 5-10 ELO points, but Carlsen's is consistently 30+ including at this moment.

https://ratings.fide.com/top_lists.phtml

Carlsen is never again going to go 125 classical games without a defeat.

Even Gukesh, crowned world champion recently, says Carlsen is the best player in the world.

Anand is still active.

While it's true that chess is a young man's game, Magnus has not lost his ability to flow absolute dookie positions into mate like no one else under any controls.