Responding to an email 1 hour later=ding?

I sent a cold email to a banker about an internship yesterday, he responded today with some question and I responded an hour later (I was sleeping).

Am I fucked? Is every banker that I cold-email shit-testing me by expecting a 5-minute reaction time?

*** Update: got an interview ***

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