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In a fair and just world Cannondale should fix this for free because it's their ridiculous design that's caused it, there's nothing stopping the bumps on the forks smashing through bare carbon. It's not fit for purpose, however I don't know how much of a ball ache that would be to sort out.
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So. I know a chunk about this, as I had a similar experience.
Yes it’s a moronic design, sticking a metal bump stop in the headtube that uses raw carbon of the headtube as the stop material is staggeringly stupid.
There’s no harm in asking Cannondale for a warranty replacement, but it probably won’t work as you crashed it. I have a SSEvo which developed a crack in the headtube from the same issue, only I didn’t even need to crash it, the design is that crap, just from usual handling, hanging it up, loading onto a car and mechanics handling in a bike shop was enough over time for the stop pin to crack the headtube. As I hadn’t crashed it, Cdale replaced the frame for free, my understanding is that they realised it’s a shit design and are easy going with replacements - if you haven’t killed it by crashing-. So sorry there. You can try the crash replacement policy but it’s pointless, it’s only like 15%off RRP.
Cannondale realised this is a crap design and made a running manufacturing change. SSEvo frames produced in the season after, MY2021+ have a metal insert in the headtube to counter the stop pin.
So this is where I ask the dad question, you using such an expensive frame- was it insured?
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