Basic Routing Question

So, I’ve inherited a network from a previous administrator who unfortunately went out on disability with medical issues and is in no mental condition to give me much of a clue about how he had things set up. I’m looking at our incoming traffic router’s configuration and I see this code (specific IPs/Macs redacted for my company’s privacy):

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interfaces {
ethernet eth0 {
address (X.X.X.161/28)
description Inside
duplex auto
hw-id (mac)
smp_affinity auto
speed auto
}
ethernet eth1 {
address (A.B.C.D/24)
description Outside
duplex auto
hw-id (mac)
smp_affinity auto
speed auto
}
loopback lo {
}
}
protocols {
static {
route 0.0.0.0/0 {
next-hop (A.B.C.1) {
}
}
route (X.X.X.160/28) {
next-hop (X.X.X.161) {
}
}
}
}
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I have reason to believe he changed it a couple of weeks ago (while in a rough mental state), and there have been some internal networking problems since the change.

If I understand that second route correctly, isn’t internal traffic stuck in an endless loop right back to this router? Or is that normal somehow?

As per my understanding that static route to (X.X.X.160/28) will never be used as long as the network is ‘directly connected’ to the interface eth0.
You could check with:

show ip route

Best Regards,
Michael