Post release step fails cause of a segfault

[ridwanmsharif]

After the recent release, the post release script failed with:

➜  opentelemetry-operations-go git:(main) ./verify_examples.sh
make: '/usr/local/google/home/ridwanmsharif/Software/src/github.com/google/opentelemetry-operations-go/.tools/gojq' is up to date.
Copy examples to /tmp/otelops-p0Oy
Update go.mod: rename module and remove replace
  Update go.mod for example/metric/collector
gojq: cannot iterate over: null