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Yes, they are still your betters. What you are saying is like asking if gold is really worth more than iron if you dissolve it in aqua regia and then pour it down the drain. We all die to bullets, just like how we are all smaller than Mount Everest.
At a personal level yes, but I'm not talking about personally, I'm talking about as a class (plus even at a personal level they may well have had children who they sent overseas where you can't get your hands on them who'll continue the family legacy, this is pretty common among the higher classes). Better stock has a way of better evading genocide etc. and some portion of the class will survive unless you do a very thorough job that pretty much nobody has managed to do, some portion always survive. And then this portion will flourish elsewhere while your suffer, and in a few generations's time end up back on top. See even now how in China a highly disproportionate portion of ruling elites have ancestors who were brutally suppressed by Mao but as a class managed to recover very strongly (and this fraction only keeps going up the higher up in government you go).
Plus as technology and drones etc. develop it's getting harder and harder to destroy upper classes at a personal level too, so you can forget about doing it as a class of people. Some will survive, they will return over the course of decades to their rightful place, and then because they are better than the lower classes, forgive it all instead of exacting their rightful revenge.
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