There are a few issues here; one being that maintaining a high moral standard is never easy, for anyone regardless of religion or lack thereof. Another being that anything one does in the name of one deity or another might be regarded as immoral by another religion's morals or even through a more objective moral set, moral relativism and all that.
The lapses in ethics are simply down to human flaws and faults and the vast majority of religious people fail to follow their religion's moral codex often or even all the time. One simply cannot claim that religious people have superior morals simply due the amount of factors that could influence actions and how these are percieved by others or by an objective moral compass. The same goes for atheists though.
Hitchens' point still stands, religious people are in no way morally superior and morals can and have existed outside of supernatural belief systems throughout time. This argument is akin to the whole "Hitler was an atheist, I have now proven that atheism is evil" discussion (which is null and void since Hitler wasn't even an atheist), there are many tools and weak arguments like this to attempt to disarm and discredit people who have no faith or personal religion and they all ultimately fail in the task they were intended for.
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