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On a simplified level, it absolutely is. If having more kids gives an evolutionary advantage, and being unintelligent is part of that caste, then absolutely the children will be born with a lower capacity for intelligence.
Look at Huskeys vs other dogs. Massive, MASSIVE difference in personality, intelligence, energy, etc.
And they aren't a different species either - it takes fractions of a % of difference in DNA to produce huge swings in things like intelligence.
If we share something like 90% of our DNA with monkeys, it's not going to take an entire speciation to measure intelligence differences. This is a lie told by people who pretend to be scientists, but are more interested in the moral implications of confirming than they are truth and facts. Yes, telling people you can control the genetic population of the species to push for certain outcomes within the species in a dangerous thing. We get that. But that is the truth of the matter, not some fairy-tale that we're all kumbyah and that every genetically distinct population doesn't have advantages and disadvantages (of which there are hundreds or thousands of distinct genetic populations within the h. sapien species; If you're a pacific islander, a DNA test can tell you exactly what island you originate from).
Sure, on an individual level - people as single data-points can fall upon that distribution, but you absolutely can shift that distribution up or down.
Granted, doing genetic control like this comes with its own incredibly dangerous set of consequences such as amplification of mutant genome, because you would be controlling for 1 trait, but missing the other millions of traits/genetic markers that you need to keep diverse in order to keep the human body working. -- Again, using dogs as a reference here, how most dalmations have hearing problems or are completely deaf because when their line was bred, they were controlling for the patterning, not other genetic defects.
If anything, better education would genetically select in favor of more stupid people. If you're stupid and can get by because of a phenomenal education then guess being stupid was smart enough.
Whether what you've described is actually how things work or not (it's not) doesn't matter though. Because breeding entire populations takes thousands of years and will not solve any of our problems today. It's really not worth talking about.