This past week was supposed to try Hillary Clinton, break Hillary Clinton, but instead it has catapulted her to a place of near total supremacy.

Let’s skip past the inevitable — Hillary Clinton will become the Democratic nominee for president — and go straight to the larger probable: America’s first African-American president is, in all probability, going to be succeeded by its first female president.

Ten days ago, that might have seemed like a stretch. But not now. Not after Vice President Joe Biden formally scrapped his presidential dream in the Rose Garden last week.

And certainly not after a loopy Democratic presidential debate that showed Hillary’s only serious challenge coming from Bernie Sanders, a kind of lovable, grumpy uncle who really doesn’t want the job.

But in the end, what sealed the deal for Hillary’s express run to the Oval Office was the ludicrous spectacle of the Benghazi hearing.

This was supposed to be where the Republicans were going to derail the Hillary 2016 Express. Instead, it turned into a really bad, 11-hour version of the Twilight Saga, with Hillary calmly sidestepping a hapless gaggle of Republican werewolves and vampires.

No kidding, by the end of the night, the Benghazi committee chairman, Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, looked awash in his own sweat. His colleague, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, had sprouted the kind of five o’clock shadow Lon Chaney Jr. wore in “The Wolfman.”

And then there was that young, crazed vamp with the stringy black hair, Rep. Martha Roby of Alabama, who demanded to know if Hillary had really gone home all alone on the night of the Benghazi attack.

In the end, what was supposed to drive a stake through Hillary Clinton’s political heart wound up making her look not just more inevitable, but more presidential.

Let’s face it, no other candidate — Republican or Democrat — has gone through that kind of fire so far and come out the other end stronger.

If Hillary Clinton can withstand an 11-hour knife fight with a bunch of Freedom Caucus Republicans, the kind of folks that the next House speaker, Paul Ryan, can’t afford to turn his back on, how much trouble can a reality TV joker like Donald Trump be?

And are we really supposed to believe that Dr. Ben Carson, the pediatric neurosurgeon and certified space cadet, is going to be able to understand the intricacies of foreign policy, let alone debate them on the same stage with Hillary Clinton? Are you kidding me?

Right now, the polls tell us these are the two GOP challengers Hillary is likely to face. Marco Rubio … Ted Cruz … Carly Fiorina … poor Jeb Bush, they’re all piled into the back seat of the clown car. Who can say whether they’ll break free and what does it matter if they do?

Hillary Clinton has already faced anything they can throw at her. If Benghazi can’t kill Hillary, Donald Trump sure as hell isn’t going to. But it would be fun to see him preening on the same stage with her, talking about his book and his billions, before he is ultimately swatted aside like all those pesky partisan mosquitoes on this week’s Benghazi committee.