Not in this situation! Lowering pitch: yes, but rolling off throttle would have depressed the RRPM still further.
The RRPM values sound somewhere near complete stall in the video: roll ON and lower! It's the action the pilot clearly didn't take (insufficient drill?) and the situation deteriorated very rapidly from there.
They were incredibly lucky to survive. At the point where the aircraft moves horizontally over the water, the alarm stops: probably got an RRPM gain through increasing translational lift at that point: then the alarm goes off again! My guess would would be gripping the throttle due to stress and impeding the governor.
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