I don't think he is dead. Just because if he was, there would be no reason to dance around it and leave it hanging in Asunder and WoT. I think Cole somehow transferred all that fear and helplessness or whatever that he absorbed from people into Lambert when he told him to "look into my eyes".
He could be with the templars still, or could have been driven mad.
I personally think he was unbalanced to begin with by the end of Asunder. He was acting in manners that surprised me, which is why I at one time suspected the Black Divine had rewired his programming, but that doesn't seem to be the case from what we know.
To elaborate on the last paragraph of your statement, I think there was something about him that was different even at the very beginning of Asunder, when he gives Evangeline her real mission in her room. He couldn't see Cole, but he could sense him. Why are some templars chosen to become seekers and not others? Why do some senior seekers have magic-like powers like forcing others to tell the truth? I think Cole mentions or thinks about being especially afraid of Lambert because he's different than the other templars. (Of course, he's a seeker, not a templar, so he wouldn't be the same, but there's the impression that it goes deeper than that.)
He's a really fascinating character, all right. Maybe there will be an answer, or confirmation of his death or survival, at least.
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