| Technically you can't "get out" because you are not in yet. But to answer your question in a more straightforward way: No, you do not have to enlist. You can tear up your contract or walk away from it at any time. The military will do some paperwork giving you an uncharacterized "entry level seperation". The only repercussion is that you will normally have to wait some time before signing up again, should you change your mind and want to enlist later.
Write a letter to the CO of the Recruiting Battalion, with a copy to your recruiter, stating that you will not report for duty and want to be dropped from Delayed Entry. You can explain why you are doing this. You don't have to do this, but it is the nice thing to do. It also helps keep the recruiter from trying to pressure you into reporting, because his/her superiors know what is going on. According to regulation your recruiter can not threaten or harrass you into reporting (for example, he can't claim the police will come get you, that you will be court-martialed, etc.). However, recruiters have been known to try such things even though they are in violation of regulations.
An example regulation is USAREC 601-45 (2-3(h)(2)): "Recruiters will not threaten, coerce, or intimidate any person for the purpose of induct-ing a member of the DEP Future Soldier (FS) to report to AD. This includes misrepresenting the likelihood of being apprehended and ordered to AD. It also includes obstructing an individual FS from being separated from the DEP FSTP.Although recruiters may properly attempt to “re-sell” an applicant FS, they will not unreasonably delay the process of an applicant’s FS’s re-quest for separation' | 
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