"Does anyone else besides me consider that maybe this crew screwed up? Maybe they actually shut down the good engine during a severe damage engine shutdown while attempting to return to the airport."
Regardless of that it would seem the pilot and crew did a remarkable job actually avoiding loss of life.
Whether he was causal to the event in any way will come out in the NTSB investigation. But it wouldn't be the first time that a pilot has seemed like a hero only to then have been found to been causal to the event or have made mistakes in subsequent flight operation, making the event worse than it should have been.