Rufus,
The third pic down is a Lacewing larvae. It is a Good Guy! Don't disturb it.
It will eat tons of what is in your other pictures, which are aphids. Pic number 4 looks like an eaten aphid. And the last pic has a few live aphids, but not a lot of them. I'd encourage the Lacewing larvae and they'll dispatch those few aphids in short order.
The deer munching a lot sure could stunt it. They do that to some roses in the front yard, I just don't expect much from those bushes.
I suppose it's possible also that it could have gotten a virus or something from the aphids, but if that was so, I'd expect the other tomatoes right next to it to be affected too, and they look fine.
So yeah, maybe the deer.
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