Or rather, 32! He had played four games over the course of (most of) the past year, and needed to get in 30 games to be eligible for the Candidates later this year. He did it, playing a remarkable 28 Classical games in 28 days, going unbeaten throughout against players rated from 2564 to 2729. He gained 7.2 points, and will be rated 2806 at the start of May. This will put him in the Candidates unless Sergey Karjakin's six-month ban is overturned.
To recap earlier information, then, these are the Candidates (starting June 16):
Ian Nepomniachtchi (2021 World Championship runner-up), Teimour Radjabov (FIDE nominee, compensating for his refusal to play in the 2020 Candidates over COVID risks), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (World Cup winner), Alireza Firouzja (Grand Swiss winner), Fabiano Caruana (Grand Swiss runner-up), Hikaru Nakamura (Grand Prix winner), Richard Rapport (Grand Prix runner-up), and either Ding Liren (highest rated eligible player as of May 2022) or, if reinstated, Sergey Karjakin (World Cup runner-up).