Did Elon ever really intend to buy Twitter in the first place, or was he just looking for a way to get inside information about the company without paying for i

Did Elon ever really intend to buy Twitter in the first place, or was he just looking for a way to get inside information about the company without paying for it like twitter's "largest enterprise customers" do? Then he could dig up a reason to abandon the deal, and back out without losing anything, and having gained much valuable information that could be used against Twitter in some other spat.