No. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. To save you the admission price, I’ll give you a rundown of how this will go.
He’ll keep contacting you just enough to stop you getting over him. You’ll have all these deep conversations, he’ll open up to you in ways he didn’t when you were dating. Occasionally you might think you’re close to getting back together. He’ll say things like “nobody gets me like you”, “I love it when it’s like this between us”, “I can just be myself with you”. He might organise events that look like a date between couples, watching a film in the dark, inviting you over to watch the latest series of the thing you binge watched together. There might be some cuddling on the sofa. Then when he fucks someone else he’ll play the victim “but we’re just friends, why can’t I be with someone else”. Then if you dare to move on and date someone else, expect moping followed by the “I still love you” calls or the “I’m so depressed since we broke up, especially now you’re moving on” calls. Expect him to call you with some bullshit emergency when you’re on dates. He won’t still be in love with you or actually want to get back together. He’ll only be depressed because you won’t be his toy anymore. As soon as you go back to fawning all over him, he’ll move you back to the friend zone, keeping you dangling on that short string and you should be supportive of him as he waves his dating life in front of you. He’ll tell you all about the women he dates and the women he just fucks. You’ll know their names. All of them. For some of them, he’ll tell you he thinks he’s got a “real future with her”. If he’s a real catch, he might sleep with you a few times during all this but tell you it was a mistake because you’re friends but he got caught up in the moment but as good as the sex was, it just doesn’t work between you two.
You need some time and space. You can go back to being friends when you’re over him and he’s realised you’re not his toy anymore (if you want to, you might be completely done with him). However, that can only happen if you have that space and don’t allow his toxic behaviour to get in the way of your moving on.