I would say Sauron probably wasn't sure himself what would happen if the Ring had been destroyed.
When Frodo was at Sammath Nur it probably suddenly seemed all to likely that the worst might come about. Things often do when bad stuff unexpectedly happens.
I'm not sure we can assume, though, that he wasn't looking for it or at least trying to find out what happened to it from the moment he returned. I think he probably was.
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