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First off, the story takes place in a Year One setting-- this is Joker's second or third outing period, and his first meeting with Superman, so no, he's not going to have "plans for everything" at that stage.
Secondly, even when he's at the top of his game, no, the Joker does not have plans for everything-- he has plans for Batman. His whole identity, his whole existence, revolves around Batman, and everyone else is just something to use against him. When he goes up against someone that doesn't fit into his "how can I use this to hurt Batman?" agenda, he usually gets his ass kicked.
And honestly, I've never bought the "he has plans for everything ever" routine as anything but an excuse for writers to pull deus ex machina out of their asses like a plot-contrivance utility belt, and it only ever seems to come up for the sake of people in the Bat-Franchise to make sure they're the coolest person in the room, usually at the expense of the entire DC Universe. Superman fights Lex Luthor all the time, the straight-up smartest man in the world, who has basically infinite resources, and who has devoted his life to killing and undermining him--to say nothing of Brainiac, who's the same thing on a cosmic scale-- but I'm supposed to believe that a homeless clown with some bombs is going to outclass them? Bullshit.
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