Yes, but how to get to the end of suffering. The Abhidhamma is the map for this. Here's an analogy.
Say we are sick and only one medicine can cure us. We hear that the medicine comes from the forest, so we go to the forest and search and search. We find many exotic and rare herbs etc. We try different mixtures and submit to different healing regimes. However although much of this seems to help eventually we realise it is only suppressing the symptoms. None of it is actually curing the disease. Then a great doctor explains that the cure is right in front of us. The leaves of the most common trees when chewed regularly gradually eradicates the disease until it finally disappears.
In the same way the Abhidhamma helps us to see that all the common realities of our daily life-seeing, hearing, attachment etc.-when experienced with understanding are the very things which will liberate us. If we don't have the Abhidhamma its very easy to go away from the path.
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