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I may be wrong but I don't think so. It is not suggested in the article. You'd need to know precisely how fast Venus was spinning when it had oceans. NewAtlas [0] interprets this as ancient ocean possibly being the culprit of Venus' extremely slow rotation period (~243 d.)

[0]: https://newatlas.com/ancient-venus-ocean-slow-down-rotation/...



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