go down as/in something
— phrasal verb with go us/ɡoʊ/verb present tense goes, present participle going, past tense went /went/, past participle gone /ɡɔn, ɡɑn/
to be remembered or recorded in a particular way:
Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the worst storms of this century.
He doesn't want to go down in the record books as the guy who walked away from his main responsibility.