What you "need to show" is of course false in general. E.g., suppose that $d=1$ and $\varphi=1_{[0,1]}$. Then your set of measures is not compact even in the topology of weak convergence, since the the sequence of the uniform distributions over the intervals $[n,n+1]$ for natural $n$ is not tight.
Iosif Pinelis
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