Aristophanes's Hiccups and Erotic Impotence

In Plato's Symposium, Aristophanes gets the hiccups and disrupts the order of the speeches. Richard Foley has argued that Plato uses this incident to call attention to the order of the speeches, which follows the rungs of the scala amoris in Socrates's (Diotima's) speech. On the contrary, I see in the order of speeches not an erotic but an epistemic order, and the shifting of Aristophanes from third to fourth disrupts it in an illuminating way. If I am right, then we are to read Aristophanes's speech as disrupting epistemic progress due to his erotic impotence.