The phrase "a ruination" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the act of ruining something or the state of being ruined.
Example: "The storm left the once-beautiful landscape in a state of a ruination, with fallen trees and flooded fields."
Alternatives: "a destruction" or "a devastation".
Maybe it is unsurprising, in a musician of consummate aesthetic discipline, that Welch sometimes seems drawn to dissolution, a personal "ruination".
Many millions of years ago, unlike anything even the Bloviarch or sainted nanny could foresee, a cataclysm cleaved the single landmass into twain, before the morning stars all sang, and what if, just what if, beneath fair Blotus' pinkish lacquered tootsies, even now, an unsuspected ruination lays in wait.
The novella confines itself to the day of the parade, and is essentially a portfolio of sketches of human ruination — a brief Inferno, in which victims of the regime are serially encountered by our narrator as he walks to the stands and takes his seat.
Among them are the Jordan Gate Towers, Limitless Towers and the Royal Village, each in a varied state of incompletion, part of a system of ruination in which incompleteness or failure can actually be financially successful for the State and its oligarchic network.
Probably not, but was it sort of like a road of ruination and emptiness?
The Tea Party movement in America today is driven by a vision of utopian capitalism, Frank observes, "at the precise moment when free-market theory has proven itself to be a philosophy of ruination and fraud".
Courses come and go in a blur, made more blurry by endless mayoral toasts of Navarran wine and the sloe-flavoured liqueur patxaran, a source of ruination for many visitors.
A one-woman ruination squad!
"There is genuine risk of a spill and injury and the ruination of an enterprise which may gross a million in the Garden".
For others, it's a weeklong look down the barrel of total emotional ruination, an entering into complete desolation.
