  We review the paradigm of eternal inflation in the light of the recently
proposed corpuscular picture of space-time. Comparing the strength of the
average fluctuation of the field up its potential with that of quantum
depletion, we show that the latter can be dominant. We then study the full
respective distributions in order to show that the fraction of the space-time
which has an increasing potential is always below the eternal-inflation
threshold. We prove that for monomial potentials eternal inflaton is excluded.
This is likely to hold for other models as well.
