No, you can’t use set_post_thumbnail() to remove the post thumbnail. The function you need is delete_post_thumbnail().
// Both of these work.
delete_post_thumbnail( $post->ID ); // pass the post ID
//delete_post_thumbnail( $post ); // or post object
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