Right. Degenerate matter is still ordinary matter, and matter creates gravity. You can't have one without the other. BTW, thanks for looking up the Wiki article on degeneracy, I was blathering on from memory, an astrophysics class from a long time ago, and my recollection of Martin Schwarzschild's Stellar Structure and Evolution, the text. I'm surprised how much of it turned out the way I remembered. My one mistake was getting Pauli Exclusion Principle and Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle mixed up, but they are related.

We may take some comfort that even though we live in a degenerate age, electrons got there first, a long time before we did.