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Adding to @Timothy's answer: I concur that there are no detailed accounts of the destruction of the Hittites.
However, there appear to be at least two very, very short and incomplete accounts:
Ugarit was probably under Hittite suzerranity, but maybe not. In any case, it was not far from the core areas of the Hittites. A desperate letter written by king Ammurapi of Ugarit survives, in which
Au roi d'Alašia, man père, dis: ainsi parle le roi d'Ugarit, ton fils: Aux pieds de man père je m'effondre. A man pere, salut! A tes maisons, tes epouses, tes troupes, à tout ce qui est au roi de l'Alašia, man père, grandement, grandement, salut!
Man père, voici que des bateaux de l'ennemi sont venus: des villes miennes par Ie feu il a brûlé et des chases bien déplaisantes dans le pays ils ant fait. Man pere ne sait pas que toutes mes troupes en pays hittite stationnent, et que taus mes bateaux en pays lycien stationnent. Jusqu'a présent ils ne me sont pas parvenus en retour, et le pays est ainsi abandonné à lui-même, Que mon père sache cette chose-là! Or, c'est 7 bateaux de l'ennemi qui me sont venus sus, et ils nous ont fait de bien mauvaises choses.
Maintenant: s'il y a d'autres bateaux de l'ennemi, informe-m'en de quelque manière, et que je le sache!
I refrain from quoting the Ugaritic original but it can be found in the same book.
The foreign countries made a conspiracy in their islands. All at once the lands were removed and scattered to the fray. No land could stand before their arms, from Hatti, Kode, Carchemish, Arzawa, Alashiya on, being cut off at one time. (...)
This is basically the introduction of another glorious account of Ramesses III's victories against the invaders. I would not necessarily take it at face value (the Egyptians occasionally took a rather liberal approach to embellishing the truth), but it does suggest strongly that the Hittite state did not exist eny longer.
Some additional aspects:
Although the uppermost Hittite levels of he site do reveal extensive burning, the damage does not seem to be attributable to a single final conflagration. Rather, its excavators now believe that Hattusa was gradually abandoned over the final years of its existence.
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I am willing to be corrected but as far as I know there is no surviving contemporary source for the circumstances in which the Hittite empire ended. There are various theories see e.g.
but I am not aware that anyone has proved that it was due to civil war.
Roughly round then c 1200 BC there was disruption in other Eastern Mediterranean civilizations including the fall of Mycenaean Greece and Egypt suffering invasion by sea. This may have been linked to large-scale population movements from further north, perhaps due to climate change and famine. The fall of the Hittite Empire (smaller Hittite states survived in Syria for a time) could well be linked to that but hard to be sure.
Whatever happened to the Hittite Kingdom seems to have been so disruptive or destructive that no records of the event survived.