SSD Inaccessible

I'll try to keep this as short as possible.

I have a 13-inch, mid 2012 macbook pro running the latest version of mac OS. Last year I switched the original hard drive with a Crucial 2.5-inch SSD. About a week ago my mac would not boot up. The loading bar would fill slowly, too slow for an SSD, and stall at a full bar. Safe mode would not boot either. Recovery mode couldn't even find the disk. So, I'd read online that it might be the SATA cable. I got a new one. It didn't work. So, I put in my old hard drive to see if it was the cable. It wasn't. The computer booted.

The SSD appeared on my desktop and in Recovery mode when I connect it via USB. I was not able to repair it, however. The selection that is usually underneath the hard drive classification was greyed out and the repair and verification gave a few APFS errors. I can't paste them here because of what happened next.

Next, I tried single user mode but it always leads to a greyed out page with a "no" symbol. Then, I tried EaseUS in an attempt to recover some files and then wipe the SSD. No luck. The SSD ejects itself before the program can fully scan it. Also, if I try to open the drive to access files, there is nothing there.

After that, I drank a lot. Then, this morning I stumbled upon the permissions in "get info" and noticed that the permissions next to my name had been changed. So, I unlocked it and tried to change the permissions back to read&write. As soon as I did that the permission window completely changes. My name goes away and is replaced by Everyone | Custom. If I try to change it back at that point, it says I do not have permission.

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP! At this point I don't care if the disk ever boots, I just want to pull a few important files.