The in-game entity certainly died as most enemies do, but it is possible as far as I'm aware) that he recovered and made it out of there in a sufficiently large piece.
But unless his survival is the concept of some fiction you are planning, assume he's dead until proven otherwise. It's both canonically and scientifically sound!
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