I have no problem believing this theory, but I wonder if those who own a lot of bitcoin are the same people who have the authority to suspend the fork. Surely they must have some, since they've probably been in the game for a while, but do they have enough to pull such a move? I'm not sure. I do believe news and info about Bitcoin is way too centralized (kind of ironic), so for some central authorities it might even have been possible to convince the community that the fork was suspended, even if it actually weren't. I'm hodling my Bitcoin.