Nope. There are tapes of the tower ordering the plane to taxi BACK to the gate. And I heard it was not customs but NYPD that actually pulled him off the plane.
This thread has a link to the audio tape of the traffic controller ordering the plane (which was #1 to take off) back to the gate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2506638/posts
On the tape before they told them to go back to the gate, they were just about to tell them to take off.