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Pretty much. It's a sign that it's time to find a new job ASAP.
Not sure if you're writing from inside or outside the US, but most states in the US are "at will" meaning your company can fire you whenever they like.
Unless you signed an employment agreement. If that's the case, then the PIP is to get you on track in whatever way that your company thinks you need to improve upon. The PIP in and of itself is not a concrete promise that you will be fired, but it points to something that your superiors want you to address sooner versus later.
Don't give the OP false hope. He's getting canned.
Even for at will employees, many employers still use PIPs as a way to preempt potential wrongful termination suits. It leaves a paper trail demonstrating performance issues and shows the employee was given an opportunity to remedy them, which makes it harder to claim the firing involved a protected status. Some places may use PIPs in good faith and actually give an employee a chance to improve, and some only use it as step 1 in the firing process. YMMV.
Refuse to sign it and see what happens
This is the real question - if you should refuse to sign it. I don't see much upside to signing it, and I would absolutely not sign if you want to maintain the optionality of a wrongful termination suit. If refusing to sign leads to your termination, then I have to imagine you were already going to be fired no matter what. And it seems far fetched that you'll somehow improve your chances of keeping your job by signing the PIP. Maybe signing the PIP could buy you some extra time while you search for another job, but my guess is 99 out of 100 lawyers would advise against it as a rule.
Are you at the Big 4? If you got a PIP at the Big 4, you're fked. You can read a lot about PIPS on the accounting subreddit. It's just a way to document that you're a poor performer, and they will eventually can you. From what I remember, very few people are able to get off a PIP plan in the Big 4 and continue moving upwards in the company. I would recommend that you start job hunting now, as you don't have to disclose that you are under this plan.
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