Nope..
http://www.imperial-library.info/content/interviews-skeleton-man
"Ah. I will tell you the truth, because you will believe none of it. The Brass God is Anumidum, the Prime Gestalt. He is also called the divine skin. He was meant to be used many times by our kind to transcend the Gray Maybe.
The first to see him was the Shop Foremer, Kagrenac of Vvardenfell, the wisest of the tonal architects [Mechanists - MN] Do not think as others do that Kagrenac created the Anumidum for petty motivations, such as a refutation of the gods. Kagrenac was devoted to his people, and the Dwarves, despite what you may have read, were a pious lot-he would not have sacrificed so many of their golden souls to create Anumidum's metal body if it were all in the name of grand theater. Kagrenac had even built the tools needed to construct a Mantella, the Crux of Transcendence. But, by then, and for a long time coming, the Doom of the Dwarves marched upon the Mountain and they were removed from this world."
The Dwemer, much like all of the Elven races, except the Dunmer and Orsimer, believe the mortal realm is a trap, and sought to escape it. And just like how the Altmer built Crystal-Like-Law, and the Bosmer built Falinesti, and the Left-Handed elves built Orichalc, and the Ayleids built White-Gold, the Dwemer built Numidium to help them in their goal. Numidium was built to serve as a means to reverse creation, and essentially anti-create the Dwemer race outside of Mundus.
The Final Report to Trebonius goes into far more detail about it them I could care to http://www.imperial-library.info/content/final-report-trebonius It is a good read.