Undoubtedly the last foot or so from the tip is dead, and its hard to tell from those photos, but the parts closer to the trunk and the trunk itself still looks hydrated and has some color that makes me think there is still a small chance its alive. I’ve had dead tips like those and still had the tree send it new growth close to or from the trunk and the tree sort of rebuild itself. If you don’t really need that space, I’d let that tree stay and see what happens. Likely dead, but maybe not and if not you’d be able to take advantage of the established roots from the last year or two (forgot how old you said that tree was). Meanwhile, you have a good looking new tree and hopefully it will give you fruit in the next year or two. Good luck.
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