Do you feel that Trump is getting more and more outrageous so he won't win the election?

Trump is not a stupid man or he wouldn’t be where he is in the business world today. I think he ran for president never thinking he would win. And now that polls have shown him the clear leader, he is saying more outrageous things to get people to not vote for him. The latest idiotic thing that I heard him say was that women should be punished for having abortions which he quickly back peddled on and then said the doctors performing them should be punished. His numbers in the polls dropped.
Do you think this is all a calculated game with him or is he really that stupid?