OpenCore Legacy patcher killed my apple SSD?

I have been using OCLP succesfully with a mid 2014 (11,3) 15" macbook pro 500GB SSD running Sonoma 14.1 until yesterday. OCLP notified of an update to 1.2.1 so I updated and rebooted. However, instead of an booting normally, it boots to a menu with

Bootkicker.efi / Openshell.efi / ResetNVRAM

I've tried to boot from another OCLP USB I created with another working macbook. The same thing happens once I select the efi icon, aparently no boot disk detected.

I created a regular installation USB for monterey, the last supported OS for this macbook. However the disk utility doesn't find the 500gb internal SSD. I ran the disk util in terminal, again no internal SSD is found.

I created a ubuntu live USB drive to run gparted and no internal SSD was located.

I have reset the NVRAM which doesnt have an effect.

SO, what more can I do to force the macbook to detect the SSD?

Is it possible for an OCLP installation to kill the SSD? I thought it was only writing to the EFI partition. Is it coincidental my SSD failed when updating? Has anyone else had this problem!!?

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