Gauss-Markov theorem

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Is it true that in the classical simple linear regression model with no intercept term, an instrumental variables estimator $\beta_{IV}$ that uses $Z_i= X_i- \bar X$ as an instrumental variable for $X_i$ will generally be inferior to the LS estimator $\beta_\text{LS}$ by the Gauss-Markov theorem?