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It's unlikely your crank went from fully tight to dramatically loose in the blink of an eye and as such you've probably been riding with it a bit loose for a while. This will have buggered the tapers on the crank arm and it will continually loosen off now. Replacement is the only solution.
The plastic piece is not an extractor, just a finishing piece/dust cap.