Does Basil Hallward accidentally get himself killed in The Picture of Dorian Gray?

I know that that's a rather strange question, but it occurred to me while teaching the novel last week, and schlepping my way through the available criticism (including work on Dorian Gray and plagiarism) isn't shedding light on the subject. 

To back up for a moment: at the beginning of the novel, Basil Hallward tells Lord Henry that although he had not wanted any "external influence" in his life, he nevertheless now celebrates Dorian as a "new personality in art" (ch. I).  Then, setting the stage for the rest of the novel, Lord Henry appropriates both "influence" and the concept of a new age from Basil, spins them a bit, and comes up with the speech that seduces Dorian (ch. II).  Dorian, in turn, regularly borrows--unquestioningly and without attribution--Lord Henry's ideas.  (For example, his self-exculpatory view of Sybil's suicide comes straight from Lord Henry's rationalizations a few pages earlier.)   In the word of Lord Henry's wife, "Ah! that is one of Henry's views, isn't it, Mr. Gray? I always hear Henry's views from his friends" (ch. IV). 

Bearing this pattern in mind, the following lines take on a potentially new significance:

"Hush! don't say that. You have done enough evil in your life. My God! don't you see that accursed thing leering at us?"

Dorian Gray glanced at the picture, and suddenly an uncontrollable feeling of hatred for Basil Hallward came over him, as though it had been suggested to him by the image on the canvas, whispered into his ear by those grinning lips. The mad passions of a hunted animal stirred within him, and he loathed the man who was seated at the table, more than in his whole life he had ever loathed anything.

Dorian suddenly experiences the painting as a conscious entity right after Basil "animates" it, as it were.  That is, Dorian ascribes the origin of his feelings to the painting once Basil hints that the painting itself might have (evil) feelings of its own (the "leering").  Basil, in effect, plants the idea that inadvertently prompts his own sudden death.

This interpretation seems to me to fit with Dorian's behavior throughout the novel, and falls in line with Wilde's own argument that Basil "dies by the hand of one in whose soul he has created a monstrous and absurd vanity," and is thus justly punished for his transgression.