Looking at the situation as it on Thursday morning - it may have changed now.
The government has collapsed and must now govern under the will of parliament. This may make the Tories have to resign their position and let others take charge.
No deal is being taken off the table. Since the EU have stopped negotiations, that makes no difference.
The proroging of parliament may or may not be going ahead, but the peoples question must be debated in parliament first.
The PM has asked for a general election. The Brexit party may make strong gains against Labour, putting the Tories back into power with a coalition. Problem with that is afterwards there could be an array of feckwits in parliament who have a single agenda and no skills. What then? Lots of tiny by-elections as they disappear after causing a bloody mess.
What if Corbyn wins? Money makers leave.

Gawd, glad I’m not part of that mess!

Here's an interesting comment from Nigel Farage, reported by the BBC:-

< Meanwhile, The Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned Mr Johnson that he "cannot win an election, whenever it comes, if the Brexit Party stands against him".
However, if they were to make a pact during a general election "with a clear policy, we'd be unstoppable", he told BBC Breakfast. >
What did I comment below???

I see through the mist and in the unknown future a complete restart of written constitution, new voting system, better MP and MEP communications with their constituents. Lots of messy things before that though.

Look where the last general election got us: a Conservative coalition with the DUP, which in turn plays a role in the backstop being a deal breaker between what the UK wants and what the EU is prepared to offer.

As long as they block no deal, I'm happy. I don't want one of my largest local employers (Vauxhall) to shut down, and I don't want to see Northern Ireland transformed back into a war zone, and live in fear of both Irish paramilitaries and Islamic jihadists, here on the mainland.

It's a shame we can't compile a register of people who still want out, even if it comes at the cost of no deal. Then we could send them to the back of the queue in the event of food or medicine shortages, since they were the ones who were supposedly willing to make those sacrifices, while many of us were not.

...... and the Farage factor?
If the Brexit party field candidates in those Labour strongholds that voted FOR Brexit, they will in all likelihood weaken Labour's parliamentary strength.
But if they also field candidates in Tory areas, then the Conservatives too will lose seats. The Lib Dems are certain to lose out.
It would certainly be "interesting" if the government were to resign before the end of this week, with parliament due to halt until mid October.

For once the opposition is united....Jeremy Corbyn has been persuaded not to jump at the idea of an immediate election, against his natural instinct to do so. The immediate danger to the U.K. is leaving the EU without a deal on 31st October, that has to be taken off the table before any election is agreed. Boris and Cummings have overplayed their hand by throwing out their rebels, they thought the threat of deselection would bring them into line, but it made them even more determined to vote against the government. We are in untested territory now....so each day brings a new uncertainty. The one thing that is certain is that there will have to be an election....it’s just a question of when, but that can’t be predicted.