The trajectory of the Aeneid seems complete, although the poem is
unfinished.
I think Aeneas does distance himself from the killing of Turnus - indeed he
even gives up his own agency in claiming that Pallas is the killer and
avenger.
Since Philip Thibodeau brought up an interesting echo on the phrase
"soluuntur frigore membra", I would like to add another intriguing one:
ii. 363: Urbs antiqua ruit, multos dominata per annos (Troy)
i.12-14: Urbs antiqua fuit, Tyrii tenuere coloni,
Karthago, Italiam contra Tiberinaque longe
ostia, dives opum studiisque asperrima belli
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ecce non curo nec resisto nec reprehendo
Augustinus, Confessiones, lib. XI cap. xx
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