Yes, I think the New York Times realized that the Democrats would be routed in the recent elections, and thus proposed cancelling the elections. The Constitution provides for such with the 2nd amendment.
I see you know as much about journalism as you do the Constitution. Op-ed pieces, especially
one written by a university professor and their undergraduate student aren't considered the position of a newspaper's editorial board on a subject. And if you actually bothered to read the op-ed, you'd have seen that they proposed "cancelling" midterms by amending the constitution to give our Congresscritters four year terms and senators either four or eight and thus have all Federal elections coincide with Presidential elections. So it was Article V and not the IInd Amendment that is relevant here.
