No, it can't. Put simply, the cosmological argument asserts that there must be a first cause that created the universe. The next question after that is: 'Who made the first cause?' and even though long books have been written trying to explain why a first cause is somehow different (ie, God didn't have to be made, was always there, etc) if you really look at all these arguments they are just variations of someone saying 'Because that's what I believe'.

Nobody anywhere has come up with convincing proof fot the existence of a first cause. Proponents of the cosmological argument usually end up by falling back on the 'science doesn't know everything' argument. Quite true, but then science doesn't claim to know everything. Physicists, for instance, have come up with theories about how the universe seems to have come into being, and these theories are as good as they can get given the data we have at present. If the data changes, so will the theories. That is very different from the cosmological argument, which is based on no data at all.