Sounds to me like youve got a major vacuum leak somewhere... did you notice what the vacuum was before it died? Its hard to explain, but when starting the car does it sound like it wants to start? Or does it sound like its struggling on a cylinder (e.g crank-crank-crank-choof-crank-crank -- really bad way to explain it, but the cylinder that goes choof sounds extremely sick compared to the rest). If so I'd go and get a compression and leak down test as it sounds like there might be some internal damage.
When I blew one of my turbos the car just wouldnt boost and when you tried to bring it onto boost, just pissed out smoke from the exhaust.