Nope, you are equivocating again.
What is sensed as empirical are phenomenal things.
There are two senses to 'what is matter',
A totality-of-empirical-matters can be sensed empirically.1. Scientific -these are empirical matters that can be justified as real
2. Ontological [Philosophy] this matter is the ontological substance which cannot be justified as real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_theory
When you state 'the totality-of-matter cannot be sensed' you are speaking of it in the ontological sense, thus you cannot equivocate it with the 'grounding of the empirical'.