A) Rasputin most certainly created and enabled a protocol to hit the traveler if it tried to leave. We're not told whether or not that happened, but we are told in a different card that all the conditions were met for Loki Crown to be put into effect. Meaning the "if" was met.
B) I'm skeptical about Rasputin talking about the traveler when he discusses the Gardener. For one thing, he says "IT won", but if IT is the darkness, it doesn't appear to have actually won since the traveler still still have exists and humanity wasn't wiped out.
We don't have a clear yes or no either way, but there are more cards supporting that Rasputin had a plan, placed the weapon, enabled the protocol, and then the conditions of the protocol were met.
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The collapse of our entire civilization plunging what remained of humanity into a centuries long dark age can be considered a win and what grimoire confirms that all criteria was met? Specifically where does it show that departure of the traveller was imminent.