VPNshift over TOR TCP Tunnel?

[Zypherspace]

I have been trying to get VPNshift connected within Whonix workstation, which is connected over the TOR TCP tunnel. The OpenVPN instance fails to connect. Is there a reason this shouldn't work? The exact same script/VPN connects perfectly on host.

waiting for openvpn (pid = 2235)
Mon Jul 23 20:37:47 2018 OpenVPN 2.4.0 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Jul 18 2017
Mon Jul 23 20:37:47 2018 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2l  25 May 2017, LZO 2.08
Mon Jul 23 20:37:47 2018 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled.  See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Mon Jul 23 20:37:47 2018 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]110.163.147.244:992
Mon Jul 23 20:37:47 2018 Socket Buffers: R=[87380->87380] S=[16384->16384]
Mon Jul 23 20:37:47 2018 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]110.163.147.244:992 [nonblock]
Mon Jul 23 20:39:47 2018 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]110.163.147.244:992 failed: Connection timed out
Mon Jul 23 20:39:47 2018 SIGUSR1[connection failed(soft),init_instance] received, process restarting                                                                              
Mon Jul 23 20:39:47 2018 Restart pause, 5 second(s)  
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