Yes, the lost souls are disintegrating with inconsolable suffering. Because they are dissolving in the ninth sphere, their tears solidify and freeze, signifying how they cannot escape their suffering and must undergo annihilation in the center of the earth. To spiritually fail is the worst kind of emotional pain one can experience, which occurs gradually. The soul gravitates within the lower spheres of the inferno, suffering more and more, until crystallizing and disintegrating through inertia in the ninth sphere.