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The ghostly giant insects protecting the Insect God are immune to physical damage, which is the mode of attack employed by the bodies possessed by the tiny colonists from the Monolith. While the Insect God isn't immune to physical damage, the thousands of ghosts will most likely grapple and subdue the most powerful warrior, in this case the possessed person, and begin their transformation into an insectoid being.

So, the character will be free to go, but will wake up with a weird sword with him and will eventually transform into an insectoid being (and all the murder everyone fun stuff from the Monolith being active as well). That is unless you rule that disease/magic immunity from the body snatchers prevents this effect. Personally, I'd say in this instance the God wins over the body colonists, in a sense both sides would get what they want. The colonists keep the body and all the previous effects from the Monolith and the body snatchers stay effective, but the character will eventually transform into an insectoid being as the God wills it to.

It opens up a ton of interesting possibilities, especially because the character will wake up in the silent cave of the God and be free to go, and they will not know why (maybe they'll assume that the plan worked and they won?). There's just that one weird sword there, and the character won't know what's been done to them in their sleep. Cue surprise when the character's body slowly starts changing...

I did something similar back when only half the current LotFP material was published. Due to TPK often being the end result of these modules, I had each of them set in the same campaign world and new characters and a, sometimes considerable, time skip (or rewind) after each module.

Chronologically I think I set them up as something along the lines of - No Dignity in Death > The Grinding Gear > Death Frost Doom > Hammers of the God > Weird New World (Played last) > Tower of the Stargazer (played first, but in the timeline that was created it was the last one).

It worked remarkably well and led to a few regional disasters in the various regions visited by my players.  The furthest fringes of civilization ravaged by human vs dwarf war (Pembrooktonshire); the empire covering the continent being considerably weakened by massive hordes of the undead being unleashed, leading to its eventual collapse around the time Stargazer was set; the dwarfish civilization being nearly extinguished by a massive civil war over shocking new revelations about the Old Miner, etc. All of these and many smaller things contributed to the backstories of the characters and NPCs and the setting itself in Weird New World, making the short-lived ship voyage that much more interesting.

With the newer modules set in the real world of the 17th century, I've simply made each new module a part of a sandbox world the players are free to roam with various larger story hook here and there in a more overal plot (which they are free to ignore).