@aclifton777 footnotes are already built into the editor, just using the Markdown Card.
Here is what it looks like to create a footnote in the Ghost editor in the Markdown Card:
To create a page looking like this in the default Casper theme:
Now here is that very same page where I have just selected a different theme a different theme which has a built-in feature to display footnotes in a popup when the number is clicked:
Here is another post with some further tips: