Did the Covid vaccine play a role in activating my predisposition to AS?

This post is not meant to stir controversy, im just genuinely curious if others have a similar timeline and what yoy think.

A few days ago I was thinking about the timeline of when I had my first flare and when I got the Covid vaccine - they were about 2 months apart. I am wondering if Covid could have triggered the disease. Like maybe my body had a pre-disposition to it and the vaccine pushed it on. I found research on Covid and autoimmune diseases but this is one of the only ones I found on AS specifically.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785826.2024.2339542

Excerpt:

The adjuvant activity of the vaccine activates innate immune sensors, resulting in the production of type I interferon and multiple pro-inflammatory mediators, which activate T cells and induce immunity against SARS-CoV-2.

Increased production of type I interferon and multiple pro-inflammatory mediators following vaccination may trigger the onset or exacerbation of existing pre-autoimmune conditions and develop autoimmune diseases such as RA, AAV or SLE. In most of reported cases in Tables 1–3, the duration of vaccination and onset of the diseases is relatively short, that is, within a month, suggesting that the stimulation of existing pre-autoimmune conditions considered to be the main pathogenic factor.

Among autoimmune diseases, ankylosing spondylitis or psoriatic arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, polymyalgia rheumatica and thyroiditis were significantly more frequently reported to occur following COVID-19 vaccines than following all other vaccines.