I think yes. Perhaps without bitcoin it will be more difficult to survive the technology, but technology interesting, working, and the most important very necessary therefore will live and develop. Not on only one bitcoin the blockchain is under construction)
The idea that blockchain cannot survive without bitcoin is literally not true and doesn't have any logical basis. Blockchain system is made for faster peer to peer transaction and has a lot of benefits which can help certain companies when used, and the first one to apply blockchain technology is bitcoin. Using it made it a lot easier for users to tracked all their transactions, and in addition that its nature was decentralized, made it a lot more simple to use.