In a sense, yes. Mostly what it implies is that the standard model for how comets work is wrong. The assumption is that they're lumps of loosely packed, dusty ice. The coma and tail is ice being liberated as case and forming into a roughly spherical ball around the comet, then glowing due to interaction with the solar wind.
The reality is that every comet photographed up close has been hard and rocky, with no obvious ice fields (and lots of unexpected terristrial-like features, including things that look like sand dunes). Comets will sometimes misbehave, displaying cometary behaviour far outside the region of space where they're meant to do so, as it's too cold. There's also the fact that some asteroids - known to be rocky chondritic asteroids with no ices - have displayed unexpected cometary behaviour from time to time. Coma, tail, the full works. The standard model just ignores all this, which is why extra-solar comets behaving so weird is hard to explain.
A proposed alternative model is that active comets are electrically charged objects that are moving through a realm of differential charge, which means they become electrically active. The "jets" of gas don't behave like jets, but instead are collimated flows of ionised gas that appear to be caused by electrical arcing against the surface. The coma is what is known as a plasma sheath - a layer that spontaneously forms in ionised gas to separate regions of different charge. Any apparent detection of water, which relies on spectral lines, has actually been the detection of hydroxyl ions, which are generated by the "solar wind" - hydrogen plasma - liberating oxygen from chondrites and forming ionised compounds.
Being an electrically charged object, moving through an electrically active environment, the comet will "connect" with the sun in the same way that the planets do (and the same way the moons of the gas giants connect to their parent body), through what are called Birkeland currents (named for plasma physicist Kristian Birkeland), though popularly referred to as magnetic ropes or magnetic tunnels. These are actually an electrical current that flows through the object, generating a magnetic field. On earth this is best assumed to be supplemented by its internal dynamo (though that could also be open to question), but the effect is the same. You end with a plasma sheath around the object. with sufficiently strong current flow, the sheath will start to glow. The electromagnetic field within the sheath, induced in the object by the current flow, forms a series of stacked and layered donut shapes, which can trap non-charged particles. This is roughly analogous to the van allen belts around the earth.
And, because their behaviour is caused by electrical interaction, even the weird orbital changes are easily explained. A change in electrical potential can cause changes in velocity. It's like regenerative braking in an electric car, using the "friction" of electromagnetic potential to push and pull at the wheels. Or the charged rock, in this case.
What I suspect is happening at this comet is that its widely different electrical charge from the solar "wind" is inducing an enormous current flow through it, which has generated an intense electromagnetic confinement at its equator, which is trapping a ring of dust and gas and causing it to move in unpredictable ways.
The best part is, this can all be replicated in a laboratory setting. Kristian Birkeland simulated the aurora and other features of earths magnetosphere (including the "magnetic ropes" and what would later be called the van allen belts) over 120 years ago, using a big metal ball and a lot of electricity, long before there was any means to confirm them.
It all sounds a bit transcendental at times, but I reckon this will be close to the accepted model in another thirty or so years. The universe is electrically active and it's absolutely fascinating.
