Tourist, I believe it does exit VRS once the collective is fully lowered and the disc enters autorotative state.
However, as the IAS is very low and ROD very High, raising the lever again would put the rotor straight back into VRS.
The recovery therefore is to lower the lever fully and apply fwd cyclic to restablish IAS before raising the collective.
That's my understanding. Now where's a Test Pilot when you need one..........