Unless my memory's failing, he wasn't whacked, which leaves that "wearing-the-wire" scene hanging, like so many others in the Sopranos (like the Russian guy who escaped into the Pine Barrens).
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.