OMG I’m at the end of my rope. Tell me this is a phase?

My July’19 baby is an absolute nightmare at bedtime. He literally won’t go to bed. Keeps telling me he is ‘scared’ and uses delay tactics. I’ve removed all the things from his room that he says are ‘scary’ but nothing seems to help except sometimes turning his main bedroom light on all night. He eventually falls asleep through exhaustion but then it’s so late that I can’t get him out of bed in the morning and it’s becoming a vicious cycle. He’s down to a 30 min nap at daycare and then when I try to skip his nap altogether he either falls asleep in the car on the way home or at the dinner table 30 mins later.