Surprise on the beach: Nothing slows our fall and we splat against the ground. Game over. No need to reconcile D&D with DOS. The big update is that everything after that point is removed from the game. During the credits, your ghost gets to shove the scrolling words off the edge of the screen.
I don't think there was any actual information in that interview other than "Yep, pretty much just gonna keep doing what we've been doing."