Solution

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Conditional on the covariates and all responses used to construct , the residual has conditional second moment at most ; conditional independence under the null is what permits this conditioning. Consequently
The Markov inequality proves
Next, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality gives
The first factor converges to zero in probability. The weak law of large numbers and part a make the second , so the product converges to zero in probability.

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