'to the ruination' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the outcome of something negative or disastrous. For example, "The town's hasty decision led to the ruination of the local economy."
Then our blimpish host progresses to the ruination of Britain by this wrecking-ball government of ours.
The murder victim, Bjorn Faulkner, for all his brilliance, was a swindler who was apparently indifferent to the ruination of his investors.
The Soviets could easily wipe out the UK completely and capture what remained of its resources, while UK retaliation might amount only to the ruination of Moscow.
It was only after a spiritual heart-to-heart with Billy Graham – still another moment of life-reckoning arranged courtesy of Bush family clout – that the middle-aged wastrel began to straighten up and fly right and, much to the ruination of the American republic, to launch himself into public life.
For decades, the Outers have been telling us that the EU is a wicked plot dedicated to the ruination of everything that is precious about this country and claiming that Brussels spends every waking minute scheming to ban us from drinking tea and any other conceivable outrage against the liberties of our proud island race.
As a staunch believer in non-existent superstitions I feel that the ukulele is a very dangerous, sensual instrument that could lead to the ruination of our young people and rend the very fabric of society.
But I became an environmentalist because it's the RIGHT thing to do, AND I refuse to take the ruination of the natural world lying down.
(Listen to clip) "It's clearly going to be the ruination of the party if the party goes down this, again, kindlier, gentler, compassionate conservatism – 'yeah, I'm pro-life, but I don't want to talk about it,'yeahah, I believe these things but, ugh, makes me uncomfortable.' Because it's kind of who we are, right?
She then suggests that IFRs could cause a "nuclear catastrophe at Sellafield" big enough to cause the "ruination of the western Lake District".
On the other hand, among contemporary city dwellers there is an unwillingness, verging on phobia, to contemplate the ruination of the recent past.
Sebald, for example, a German writer burdened with the question of how to address the ruination of the Second World War, is a literary event made in some way possible by Virginia Woolf.
