Possible Clues:

• Stopped spouting rubbish, primarily, with year in retirement
• Took part in TT race, as it were, and became exhausted
• Became less than a trickle
• Got used up
• Lustful Romeo having been bedded was exhausted
• Set up Dr Ryan for when flow of money stopped
• Was used up
• Stopped flowing, as a stream
• Produced no more