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No because that state refers to bosons only.
Once the universe has expanded sufficiently, there will be no more reactions at all. Protons and electrons will be too far apart to interact. There maybe a few remnant pairs of neutrons and protons, but eventually even those will separate to distances where they won't interact.
Even with the universe expanding on a cosmological scale, I have a hard time seeing how or why that expansion should overcome the electromagnetic force locally, or the strong force for that matter.
Planets, solar systems,and galaxies are held together by gravity today, despite the space between galaxies expanding. The expansion of the universe doesn't appear to be tearing things apart locally, why should it in the future?
To be clear: This is an honest question, I'm not an astrophysicist. My impression was that the expansion of the universe has no locally measurable effect, due to the forces holding things together being much stronger on a local scale than "whatever" is driving the space between things to expand.
I think to get to the heart of what you are saying, don't forget particles decay! So local accumulations have no choice but to evaporate basically over time