ESP32 C3 desktop trinket Mini TV Board has gone into a strange state

In the Arduino IDE and after having run (well, it didn't run, it crashed) the following sketch

(Examples->ESP32->ChipID->GetChipID)

uint32_t chipId = 0;
void setup() {
	Serial.begin(115200);
}
void loop() {
	for(int i=0; i<17; i=i+8) {
	  chipId |= ((ESP.getEfuseMac() >> (40 - i)) & 0xff) << i;
	}
	Serial.printf("ESP32 Chip model = %s Rev %d\n", ESP.getChipModel(), ESP.getChipRevision());
	Serial.printf("This chip has %d cores\n", ESP.getChipCores());
        Serial.print("Chip ID: "); Serial.println(chipId);
	delay(3000);
}

the board now REQUIRES me to press BOOT+RESET to be able to flash any other sketches to it + press RESET to run them.... If I don't press RESET+BOOT, I get the following error:

A fatal error occurred: Unable to verify flash chip connection (No serial data received.).
Failed uploading: uploading error: exit status 2

Previously, it did not require this (it would just flash the board and run automatically)

Is it possible to go back to the initial state or have I accidentally triggered some irreversible state change in the board?