well, I would think there would be other damages.. like, say, someone accused one of the victims of making the Attack up so as to get attention.. That person did not lose money but lost respect in his or her neighborhood..
that's notdamage?
One would think that once this was proven a lie, that your neighbours would apologize. They're real assholes if they don't.
In the case of Jones' contentions of a vast conspiracy, the sheer number of people involved in perpetrating such a hoax would mean that it would be quickly exposed. The old adage "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead" was never more applicable.
Look at all of the people in Donald Trump's White House who have come for to expose the planning of the January 6th Insurrection. Look at how many Nixon staffers came forward to expose Watergate. You simply cannot have a conspiracy involving hundreds of "crisis actors" without SOMEONE breaking ranks and exposing the plot.