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It could be cosmic ray. The fact is we don't know. It's just speaking in terms of probability, it's a lot more likely that this is an N64 bug.
It's not like we don't know what a hardware exploit can do on the N64. For example, you can skip an area in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by pulling part of the cartridge out while the game is running.
Tool-assisted Speedruns (TASes, the automated run you mentioned) are mostly run on emulators. If this an N64 hardware bug, it may even be specific to that speedrunner's N64. That's why a TASer actually bought the N64 from this speedrunner to study it lol