There's ton of specific imagery in the scene around Jon's death that allows the reader to draw that conclusion. Whether Martin intends that prophecy to actually come true or not is harder to say.
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Then Bowen Marsh stood there before him, tears running down his cheeks. "For the Watch." He punched Jon in the belly. When he pulled his hand away, the dagger stayed where he had buried it.
Jon fell to his knees. He found the dagger's hilt and wrenched it free. In the cold night air the wound was smoking. "Ghost," he whispered. Pain washed over him. Stick them with the pointy end. When the third dagger took him between the shoulder blades, he gave a grunt and fell face-first into the snow. He never felt the fourth knife. Only the cold...
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There's also imagery around the sigil of the knight Wun Wun killed that fits the red star bleeding.
It's obviously a big cliffhanger to be addressed in the coming books.