This is by-design.
If you go to the RAW tab and delete literally everything, including the HTTP headers, your response is no longer legal HTTP traffic and thus Fiddler ignores your modification. You can either manually delete just the body text, or you could use the TextView inspector (which doesn't show the headers) to delete the body text.
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