If by "gigadeath" you mean massive drop in world population levels within very short timespan, it already happened once - and I don't understand why it had so little effect on human civilization.
Back up - the very Wikipedia page you link says:
The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population, reducing the world's population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400. This has been seen as creating a series of religious, social and economic upheavals which had profound effects on the course of European history. It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover. The plague returned at various times, resulting in a larger number of deaths, until it left Europe in the 19th century. [emphasis added]
Analysts of humanity's future sometimes use the word "doom" rather loosely. ("Doomsday" has the further problem that it privileges a particular time scale.) But doom sounds like something important; and when something is important, it's important to be clear about what it is.
Some properties that could all qualify an event as doom:
Examples to illustrate that these properties are fundamentally different: