If armory goes down and I have no exe file. All I have is the root key. How would I get the money out? Is there a way to convert a root key into the private keys?
Extracting private keys from an Armory root key without Armory is not as simple as sweeping a private key. The Bitcoin base-58 private key format is widely used whereas the Armory root key system is pretty much just an Armory thing.
Still, it's not so difficult. See
here for details.