As indicated by @RobertB4444, the tax law is established to tax any money earned. In your case the funds that went into the traditional IRA were never taxed which is the reason you cannot offset other income for untaxed lost funds, even in bankruptcy.
If there was any nondeductible funds, only those could be used to offset income and that amount must be greater than $3,000.
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