Verify that I found an example of a degenerate random variable that is not constant on the probability space

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Let $\Omega = \{3,4\}$ be a sample space. Define a probability measure $P$ on $\Omega$ by $P[3] = 0$ and $P[4] = 1$.

Let $X$ be the random variable defined by $X(\omega) = \omega$.

Definition: A random variable $X$ is degenerate if there is some real number $b$ such that $P[X = b] = 1$.

I claim that my random variable $X$ above is an example of a degenerate random variable that is not a constant function on all of $\Omega$ since $X(3) \neq X(4)$.

Am I right?

I'm self-studying from an undergraduate intro to probability textbook and this problem asks to come up with such an example. It's from the very first chapter.