How to show in the time domain that in the frequency domain, multiplication with rect function with larger bandwidth has no effect?

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In the frequency domain, $G(f) H(f) = G(f)$ if $H$ is a brickwall filter with a higher bandwidth than $G$.

I want to show this in the time domain.

My attempt: The time domain representation would be

$$ \int g(\tau) \operatorname{sinc}\left(\frac{t-\tau}{T}\right) d\tau = g(t) , $$

where the sinc is the ideal brickwall filter with bandwidth $1/(2T)$.

By definition, if $g$ is bandlimited to $1/(2 T_g)$, it can be expanded using the WKS interpolation formula, having the samples as coefficients:

$$ g(t) = \sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} g(n T_g) \operatorname{sinc}\left(\frac{t-n T_g}{T_g}\right) = \sum_{n-\infty}^{\infty} g[n] \operatorname{sinc}\left(\frac{t-n T_g}{T_g}\right) $$

Plugging this into the original equation:

$$ \int \sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} g(n T_g) \operatorname{sinc}\left(\frac{\tau-n T_g}{T_g}\right) \operatorname{sinc}\left(\frac{t-\tau}{T}\right) d\tau \\ = \sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} g(n T_g) \left[ \int \operatorname{sinc}\left(\frac{\tau-n T_g}{T_g}\right) \operatorname{sinc}\left(\frac{t-\tau}{T}\right) d\tau \right] $$

From this, the term in bracket would need to be equivalent to $\operatorname{sinc}\left(\frac{t-n T_g}{T_g}\right)$ but only if $T \leq T_g$!

I tried calculating this integral using sines and exponentials but the expressions just get messier. I don't see this working out.