How Rajasthan Royals, table-toppers at one point, suddenly fell off the cliff mid-season in IPL 2024?

It's not often that a team winning seven games out of the first eight and the other winning just one out of their eight face each other in the eliminator in the 2024 edition of the IPL. It has been a month of contrasting fortunes for one Royals team while the other are flying high. Who'd have thought that the Rajasthan Royals, the team which was steamrolling everyone in their way, was eager to play in the rain to get to the second place somehow having suffered four losses in a row?

source https://www.indiatvnews.com/sports/cricket/how-rajasthan-royals-table-toppers-at-one-point-suddenly-fell-off-the-cliff-mid-season-in-ipl-2024-playoffs-eliminator-rr-vs-rcb-2024-05-20-932401