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more or less. All the light and sound was it fighting hard against terminal velocity. Once it had lost, the exact terminal velocity of each surviving chunk would depend on its size, shape and density, so maybe faster than 120mph but almost certainly subsonic.
I think meteors that make it to the ground before terminal velocity takes over (either by being bigger or faster or coming straight down) are the ones that make good craters.