Oh yeah! he was kind of a hero (Jesse James style) back in the day
It is one of those things that will never be totally resolved. FBI and skeptics are convinced he died after bailing out, and romantic are convinced he survived. The FBI says they found some of the money in the area where he jumped. The survival theory I have seen, props that he left some of the bills to make it seem he was killed but they require that you believe he horded the money all his life and lived a very ordinary existence.
I want him to have gotten away with it, but he probably didn't survive the jump.