It means that the listener found the speech very distasteful/repugnant. The phrase "to sink to a new low" very often refers to a moral judgement, and when it's impossible to sink any lower, you've hit "rock bottom".
So for example, if a politician gave a speech about how to tackle illegal immigration and you found it to be inhumane/immoral, you could say that their speech, or that they themselves, "sank to a new low".