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Study sheds light on the white dwarf star, likely destroyer of our solar system
(www.theguardian.com)
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A quick look has the mass of Mercury, Venus and Earth at close to 2 times the mass of Earth by itself. The Sun is around 330,000 times the mass of Earth. Soaking up all the inner planets means a change of less than 1/10th of 1% to the mass of the Sun. It's not going to have an appreciable effect on it's gravitational pull. The Sun already holds the vast majority of the mass of the solar system. With Jupiter holding most of the rest.
Contrary to the headline, I suspect the only way the solar system will be destroyed by a white dwarf will be if one ends up whipping through our solar system. That would make for a very bad day.