Possible Clues:

• Sadly I seem resigned in the end to failure
• Downfall, as of an empire
• Undoing
• Failure in half of London area?
• Frenchman is in river: it's the end
• Passing medium-dry champagne -- not cold
• End of old EMI's empire
• Side with me mistakenly in the end
• End of all but the last of medium-dry wine
• Enron's came in 2001