IntelliJ won't open in my ubuntu 22.04

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I have installed IntelliJ 2023.1 on my ubuntu 22.04. It was working fine with java version 17 and I tried changing the java version to 11. And now, my intelliJ is loading but not opening. The below is the error I get while trying to open through terminal. Kindly assist asap.

Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/intellij/util/lang/PathClassLoader has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 61.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 55.0
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(java.base@11.0.19/Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(java.base@11.0.19/ClassLoader.java:1017)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(java.base@11.0.19/SecureClassLoader.java:174)
    at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.defineClass(java.base@11.0.19/BuiltinClassLoader.java:800)
    at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.findClassOnClassPathOrNull(java.base@11.0.19/BuiltinClassLoader.java:698)
    at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClassOrNull(java.base@11.0.19/BuiltinClassLoader.java:621)
    at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(java.base@11.0.19/BuiltinClassLoader.java:579)
    at jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(java.base@11.0.19/ClassLoaders.java:178)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.base@11.0.19/ClassLoader.java:522)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(java.base@11.0.19/Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(java.base@11.0.19/Class.java:398)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.initSystemClassLoader(java.base@11.0.19/ClassLoader.java:1976)
    at java.lang.System.initPhase3(java.base@11.0.19/System.java:2074)

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Hello Sneha. Please, note that we don't recommend using any JRE except our own JetBrains Runtime for running our IDEs. To change IDE boot Java Runtime to the default, use this article (second paragraph from the end).

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