Maybe you can't order one now, Chris, but that doesn't equate to the title of your post: "The DL1000 is dead". The fact that you can't buy one right now isn't a lock that Suzuki has killed the model off. If you look at the Stromtroopers forum, you'll see that this same speculation was rampant a few years back when Suzuki didn't offer the DL1000 in a current model year. This may have even happened on two prior occasions; I'd have to do more research, but it has happened at least once before. And it was the same sort of speculation; the bike is dead, it's not being offered any more, it's the end of the DL1000. And it was, right up until they brought it back.
You may very well be right about it being discontinued; I'm not on the board of directors of Suzuki so I don't have the inside track on what they're planning. I'd hazard a guess that no one here holds that position either. But Suzuki's prior history with this model has shown that the fact that a new model wasn't offered during a particular year isn't a definitive answer that it's been killed off.