He could have avoided the crash in many ways, making his approach to the spot into wind being the most simple.
However, life and ATC aren’t always that simple and he could have made the same downwind approach safely by coming in slower and more shallow and getting the power in early and keeping the RoD nicely under control providing he had OGE performance plus a decent excess above that figure, say 10-15% Tq in hand.
Or, approach to the left of the spot, but not steep, and make a gentle right turn maintaining ETL until getting an into wind component - a curving approach.
I won’t be surprised if fatigue features in the accident analysis, its insidious nature can cause competent pilots to make very poor decisions and if you are single pilot you have no one to recognise your fatigue level.