For me it looked doomed from the start. It fishtailed constantly from the very beginning. I think that not only was the loss of engines bad, but that the engines aren't throttling evenly across the board and that doomed it from before it ever really began.
There's a reason NASA, Russia, and the European Space Agency uses the "less is more" approach. Any slight variance in thrust is certain doom. When you're dealing with 5 engines, it's manageable. When you're dealing with 33, it is not.