I don’t know but I’m betting not. The article says they’ve designed in “liveliness” detection; i.e., Apple has tried to make certain facial recognition won’t work with a person’s dead face. They didn’t say exactly how they achieved that... whether by looking for color in the face or looking for small movements in the eyes or muscles of one’s face, etc.
With how capable mobile processors are, they can calculate an incredible amount of data very quickly. Anti-spoofing technology was definitely a priority if Apple was going to permit it for mobile payments.