Simple answer: Yes
Long, complicated answer: Most likely
Do note that I'm not a writer or anything; I speak with no more authority than that of a (dedicated) fan. Also, most of my knowledge is "modern", i.e., dating from Journey into Mystery onwards. If you have questions about Loki's continuity from the Stan Lee/Kirby era up til Siege, I can't answer them, but I believe that's typically all considered the same Loki, stealing Sif's body notwithstanding.
Also, the "modern" era is pretty convoluted, so I'm just going to bet you're asking mostly about that.
I'm also going to spoil the hell out of a lot of stuff -- it's impossible to discuss this, for instance, without talking about the ending to Journey into Mystery. I would highly recommend reading that if you're interested in Loki, or even just in general, it's good. So, you're forewarned
spoilers:
Loki died in the original Siege comic event. And here's when the Loki stories started to get meta -- and then the Thor stories, by overflow.
Sometime while he was still alive, the original Loki realized that he was too predictable and, as a villain, destined to lose. So, he messed around with fate, specifically what would happen to him after death. Instead of going to whichever Norse afterlife he'd earned (insert argument here about Hel vs Valhalla, since he technically died in battle), he was reincarnated as a new person (though I'm not sure if that was the same soul -- how do we define a soul, etc etc, but they're treated as separate entities).
Kid Loki was cool and non-villainous, but haunted by a version of his past self that only he could see (Ikol).
Without summing up the entirety of that story, in the last act Kid Loki has to over-write himself with Ikol in order to stop Mephisto. (It's complicated enough that I can't remember all the dominoes off-hand -- basically, Ikol manipulated things behind the scenes so he could come back.)
Thus, at the end of the story, Loki is the original Loki, albeit in Kid Loki's body.
This state of affairs continues thru Young Avengers (although he gets aged up) and into Agent of Asgard.
Here's where the "maybe" comes in: At the end of Agent of Asgard, Loki rewrites himself into the god/dess of stories. This comes with a personality shift, and I think it's a matter of debate whether this Loki is the same being as the "original" Loki. To further complicate matters, then that comic ended and Loki got picked up by Jason Aaron in his Thor comics, where he mostly ignored/retconned the end of Agent of Asgard (and caused some tumult among the fandom, iirc). It's not explicitly retconned so much as mostly ignored, and Loki gets sucked back into being the god of lies.
Cates (again in Thor) picked up where Aaron left off, and most writers who have Loki "guest" in their comics just don't really address it. There's also a split right now in writers who consider him the god of stories (following Agent of Asgard's ending) and those who consider him the god of outcasts (following the lamentably short-lived "Loki" comic).
Right now, Ewing is writing Defenders with a version of Loki who is god of stories. It remains to be seen how that will all tie together.
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