"At that moment there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell in ruins. Seven thousand people were killed during the earthquake; the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven." (Rev. 11.13).
The Romans did not make Jerusalem uninhabitable (we have a lineage of Christian Bishops and Christian Churches to prove that), they did destroy her Temple area, about 1/10 of the city.
Even more telling is:
"Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm." (Rev. 11.19)
The appearance of God's Temple in heaven strongly implies it has been destroyed by this point in the narrative.
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YOur lines brought to mind Tertullian, writing in 207-212 a.d. :"It is agreed even by pagan witnesses that in Judea a city was suspended in the sky early every morning for forty days. As the day advanced every outline of its walls vanished, or if anyone approached, there was nothing."