Is my vesc screwed?

Keep getting serial port error when I try to connect.
“the i/o operation has been aborted because either a thread exit or an application request”

Any suggestions, tried rebooting etc

Theres quite some info on google regarding the error message
Did you try any of that?
https://www.google.com/search?q=vesc%3A+“the+i%2Fo+operation+has+been+aborted+because+either+a+thread+exit+or+an+application+request”&oq=vesc%3A++“the+i%2Fo+operation+has+been+aborted+because+either+a+thread+exit+or+an+application+request”&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg60gEINTM0OGowajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8