That is the implication. He got sent very large sums of Bitcoin, you would expect that he'd just get a bunch of small ones, but he got 2-3 large ones ($5,000 a piece).
1) Have 5+ BTC
2) Recognize a QR code on a TV broadcast
3) Think to pause the tv broadcast, decode the QR code and send BTC
4) Completely unaware of the 1000s of news articles and broadcasts about the soaring value of BTC
Maybe he sent it to himself, maybe someone else was just very generous, but no one purposefully sent 5BTC without knowing it was valuable.