TORONTO — His hopes of winning another term in tatters, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford snuck out of his city to seek treatment for substance abuse a day after a second video emerged that appears to show him puffing from a crack pipe.

Political observers say the populist mayor, who was elected four years ago on a wave of support from Toronto’s conservative suburbs, is done for and has no chance of winning October’s election. But in the conservative, ethnically diverse suburbs that elected him and where his promises to slash spending, cut taxes and end what Ford has called “the war on the car” are treasured, some die-hard loyalists are sticking by him.

“He’s been involved with the people, he wants to save people money,” said Kalyan Gohain, 43, a sales executive who lives in Ford’s suburb of Etobicoke. “For those people who aren’t financially well off, he knocked on their doors to see where their problems were. That’s what the mayor should do, to see and hear from the people what they want.”