I can confirm the bottom microphone hole holds a microphone mounted in vertically.
This article talks about it: https://www.ifixit.com/News/32804/why-you-cant-really-damage-your-microphone-port-with-a-sim-eject-tool
Also I got youtube video reference: https://youtu.be/jc1MVKh67VQ
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