Needing just a draw to progress to the last 16, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side conceded twice inside 13 minutes to leave their hopes in tatters before RB Leipzig added what ultimately turned out to be the killer third with 20 minutes left.
United staged their now customary second-half fightback thanks to a Bruno Fernandes penalty and Paul Pogba header, but ultimately fell short.
To focus on salt the injury, the goalscorer of the first and provider of the second, Angelino, is as of now borrowed in Germany from Manchester City.
His brilliant low shot into the furthest corner after only two minutes was followed not long after by a chipped cross to the back post, where Amadou Haidara ghosted in to volley past David de Gea.
It might have been much more terrible, with the home side seeing a third objective precluded for offside against Willi Orban on the half-hour.
Joined were better in the subsequent half and struck the crossbar through a Fernandes free-kick yet not long after substitute Justin Kluivert contributed following some terrible protective play from Maguire and De Gea.
Fernandes' punishment - granted for a foul on Mason Greenwood by Ibrahima Konate - gave them a remote possibility, which Paul Pogba made genuine with a back-post header into the net, however the Germans hung on.
Pogba had begun the seat and went ahead with 30 minutes to go, a day after his representative Mino Raiola announced that the midfielder was "troubled" at the club and "needs to leave" in the following exchange window.
It is little comfort for United that they presently drop into the Europa League - an opposition they won in 2017.
RB Leipzig advance to the Champions League last 16 having arrived at the last four out of 2019-20.
Regardless of whether they do as such as gathering victors or other participants relies upon the outcome between Paris St-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir in a game that was suspended on Tuesday after a match official was blamed for utilizing a bigoted term towards one of the Turkish side's private cabin staff.
No rebound this time as United head for Europa League
Tuesday's destruction is the most recent and least plunge of what has just been a rollercoaster season for Solskjaer's side, both locally and in Europe.
They were firm top choices to advance from Group H subsequent to beating PSG and Leipzig in their initial two rounds of the mission, however a week ago's home misfortune to the French side left them helpless and the German side finished the work.
In truth, however, a large part of the fault for their inability to advance lies with their destruction at Istanbul Basaksehir, who completed lower part of the gathering.
Pundits rushed to jump on Solskjaer's side after that rout, especially considering the careless way their protection permitted Demba Ba to run unchallenged from inside his own half to score the initial objective of the Turkish side's 2-1 success.
Such cautious frailties have likewise been apparent all through their class season, remembering for succeeds at Everton, Southampton and West Ham, in which they fell behind however mobilized to take the focuses.
Again in Germany they were unpicked effortlessly as Angelino flooded into space on the left to fire in Leipzig's first and was then managed a lot of space to choose Haidara for the second.
It might have been diverse had Greenwood exploited existence on the counter-assault, yet he put his low shot excessively near Peter Gulacsi, who spared to protect the score at 1-0.
It was maybe telling that not exclusively did Pogba not beginning the game yet that he was not Solskjaer's first port of bring in quite a while offer to change the game, with Donny van de Beek his first replacement.
At the point when Pogba showed up, he had any kind of effect, scoring the second objective that gave them any desire for one more late recuperation and right around a significantly greater one with a cross that Nordi Mukiele would have stuck into his own net yet for the boot of Gulacsi.
The last whistle followed not long after to give Leipzig their retribution for the 5-0 misfortune they endured at Old Trafford on matchday two.
What's next?
It is the Manchester derby in the Premier League next for United, who have City on Saturday (17:30 GMT).
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