If you can maintain the rigor and pace of an undergraduate CS degree by yourself, you'll be fine. But I think that's really hard to do, and also misses some of the group aspect of college learning (you can augment with OSS projects though).
If this was 2020 I wouldn't recommend for you to go to college, I would say just bootcamp or self study, and find some startup to work at and hone your skills, and job hop from there. But junior hiring has grown much more competitive.
Do you have any network you can leverage to find a first job? If so, I think that route is definitely better. But in the current market I don't see why a company would hire you vs. some random new grad.
For entry level, recruiters get thousands of candidates. They skim each resume for 30s to decide who to bring on to interview and usually don't have the technical context to understand OSS / side projects. If you don't have a degree you likely won't make it past the screen. Also there are many new grads with impressive OSS contributions / side projects.
Also, making a meaningful OSS contribution is ... hard. You have minimal programming experience, you're going to need to learn a lot just to be able to fix a typo. Not to discourage, but just to put into perspective (I work on OSS for FAANG).
Most tech interviews will have a leetcode component, so I would also take a more advanced algorithms/data structures class like https://www.coursera.org/learn/algorithms-part1
I would also start doing problems on leetcode once you finish the course.