He was rehired.

The trump administration very briefly believed that publicly saying "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate" in public just months before being hired was crossing a line. Then they realized that no it actually wasn't and that their base likes people like this and rehired him.

I do wonder what JD Vance's kids think about situations like this.

i dont think he had to, he voluntarily did after public pressure. And then JD Vance tried to get him back