As a reader I would think it is mostly internal, since we
obviously think he's mad; he, however, tries to convince us otherwise: "Nervous, very,
very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am
mad?"
He then goes on to discuss how it was the old man's
eye, which could be considered an external conflict in his mind: "I
think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a
vulture."
If the conflict is internal,
I would argue that no, the internal conflict is not resolved because he's still
obviously mad: he is dreadfully nervous when the police arrive, then finally admits to
the murder: "It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
If
the conflict is external, then I believe the conflict is still not
resolved, but more because he is still haunted by the old man even after his
death-killing the old man did not stop his external
conflict.
Bottom line: seems to me that it is
both internal and external, and these conflicts are not resolved
when he kills the old man in the climax since he is still mad and is still haunted by
him.
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