VSCode: How to not show the editor ruler and instead display characters past column limit in a different color?

Question

I'm coming from spacemacs and editing Python files.

In VSCode, I want to display characters past column limit (80 characters) in a different color (red), as in Spacemacs.

I do not want to use editor.rulers to always show a ruler, as it's distracting.

Is this feasible?

Tried

    // "editor.rulers": [80],

But it's distracting.