I would not say so. The BASIC used in the Office pack is the last child of the MS-BASIC/GWBASIC/QBASIC/QuickBasic/VisualBasic lineage, is still (unfortunately?) very much alive, and probably powering a much bigger part of the modern world than we should be comfortable with.
VBA isn't that bad a language. Compiles to native and runs with impressive speed. Lots of built in libraries for numeric programming among other things and fairly easy to call into any dll. The issue is it's accessibility. Like JS and Python people blame the language for what happens when you hand people with no software training and an interest only in solving their immediate problem, a computer language they are productive in.
And how can we call basic dead when VB.net is still in the tiobe top 10?
I would not say so. The BASIC used in the Office pack is the last child of the MS-BASIC/GWBASIC/QBASIC/QuickBasic/VisualBasic lineage, is still (unfortunately?) very much alive, and probably powering a much bigger part of the modern world than we should be comfortable with.