Asymptotic estimate of a double Laplace-Fourier integral

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While reading a physics paper I bumped into the following integral:

$\int_0^{\infty}\mathrm{d}x\, e^{- x}\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}\mathrm{d}y\,e^{iy}\,\text{cos}(\frac{\sqrt{x+ ay}}{a} + \frac{\sqrt{x- ay}}{a}) $,

where "a" is a parameter.

The authors claim that in the limit $a \to 0$ the integral vanishes because of the highly oscillating nature of the integrand function involved in the Fourier Transform. This closely reminds me of the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma, however I can not understand how I should apply this lemma in the present case, especially because of the functional form of the argument of the cosine.

Is it the correct approach to invoke the Rieman-Lebesgue lemma or should I follow another path to prove their claim?