Is every particle sustained ripple in its respective field? This is neither a homework nor a calculational question, but more of a conceptual one. 
I was wondering can every particle; that is, the ones indivisible (because divisible ones can be broken down into constituents quarks, etc.); be characterized as just a "ripple" in its respective field. In essence, what I am asking is can we formulate quantum and macro physics just in-terms of field without ontologizing particles? 
For instance, 


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*a photon being a "ripple," or excitation to be exact, in the electromagnetic field.

*Higgs particle being an excitation of higgs field...


And so forth!
Also, feel free to correct any misunderstandings evident in the question!
 A: The field theory of elementary particles is based on quantum mechanics. For each particle in the elementary particle table

of the standard model of particle physics, it is posited that a field exists covering all space-time, in the following mathematical model:
The field is represented by the free particle wave function solution of the corresponding equation, dirac for fermions,klein gordon for bosons, quantized maxwell for photons.
Wave functions are complex functions and in this sense not "real", i.e. not into one to one correspondence with real numbers. Creation and annihilation operators acting  sequentially on the electron field, for example, will propagate the electron  in space time, and  Feyman diagrams have been developed in order to be able to calculate interactions between particles to be compared with experiment, real numbers.
A free traveling electron cannot be represented by the plane wave solutions,which cover from minus-infinity to plus-infinity in energy and momentum and spacetime, because it is localized, and wave packet solutions are used in this case, that should satisfy the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle for that energy and momentum  and location, though  there is just the conceptual need for such a description. For any comparison with experiments it is interactions of particles that are checked by the Feynman diagram calculations, and the creation/annihilation operators on the plane waves are adequate for that, afaik.

a photon being a "ripple," or excitation to be exact, in the electromagnetic field.

A single non interacting photon has to  be a wavepacket on the photon field, propagating the energy/momentum of the photon with creation and annihilation operators over a wavepacket of plain waves.
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Higgs particle being an excitation of higgs field..
Ditto for Higgs.
One could conceptually think of the wavepackets as solitons travelling on the underlying complex fields , but one should always  remember all these models are based on quantum mechanics, a basically probabilistic theory, connecting calculations to real numbers .
