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Is you’re building a distributed architecture with various services, is it acceptable to have those services communicate via ssh port forwarding, so that to a client a service looks like it’s being served on a local port?
The only person who can answer “is it acceptable” is you, or your client.
Is it wise? Probably not, because SSL with certificates at both ends will deliver the same capability with a much less troublesome intermediate layer, but that is an engineering decision you have to make.