evidence: Ramaswamy faces scrutiny over suggesting government involvement in 9/11 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was caught in a blunder after he claimed The Atlantic misquoted him floating the idea that the federal government was perhaps involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. During a CNN appearance on Monday night, anchor Kaitlan Collins questioned him about the comments, to which Ramaswamy responded that they were actually about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He made a similar commentsuggesting he was misquoted to Semafor. But on Tuesday afternoon, The Atlanticpublished interview audio that verified the original quote about 9/11 was correct.