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If you just want the batter to run to all the bases and reach home and score a point (or a run, by baseball jargon) with no regard for on field ruling, then yes by a series of errors being committed by the fielders.
For example if a fielder throws to first to get an out, but throws it out of reach from any fielder. However, in this case the ball MUST NOT leave the field of play (e.g., get thrown into the stands), otherwise the ball is dead, and the runner will be placed on a base at the umpire's discretion.
This however is not a home run by rule, but rather a fielding error(s) that results in a run.
Another option is that none of the fielders try to get the ball. They just stand around after the batter bunts the ball. There's no real reason this would happen, unless something extraordinary happens (aliens land on the stands, that sort of thing). This would probably be ruled a home run, but again, astronomically unlikely.
If you're allowing swinging bunts, you could potentially have a batter "doink" the ball over the in fielders but outside the reach of an outfielder and have the fielder run past the ball without touching it (if they touch it, it's an error). If the batter runs fast enough as all of this happens you can conceivably have a home run this way.
The "I'm trying to break physics" version of this may have been covered by XKCD at some point.
Ever see baseball players wait for a slow roller to go out of bounds but it stays in. Something like that, a fast runner and too many defenders hovering around the ball.