"Prepositional Because" or "Prepositional Ellipsis"?

There's been a bit of buzz around because being the new preposition.  Sentence first addressed it as well.  I thought I might offer yet another.

There are many types of ellipses in English:

• I like apples and [I like] oranges.


• I went home last night and [I] called my cousin.


• Dad will help and Mom will [help] too.

So an ellipsis can be an omission of a noun (subject), verb, or noun and a verb when restating them is not necessary.  But can we do the same with prepositions?

Because usually functions as either...

• Subordinating conjunction that introduces a subordinating clause: I eat vegetables because I want to stay healthy.


• Before a prepositional phrase: Because of your tardiness, you have been removed from class.

Is it possible to have a "prepositional ellipsis"?

•  I'm late because [of] YouTube.


• You're reading this because [of my] procrastination.


• But Iowa still wants to sell eggs to California, because [of] money.


• ...because [of] logic.

What do you think?  Do we have a prepositional because or a prepositional ellipsis ... or something else?