Actually the implication should be reversed: a separated regular Noatherian scheme has enough locally frees (this is Exercise 6.8, Chapter III Hartshorne). So the hypothesis is certainly needed for the proof.
EDIT: The statement in Hartshorne assumes X is integral, but this is not needed: see SGA 6, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5 and 2.2.7.1 (page 168-172 here ). In particular, you need separatedness and locally factorial (which follows from regular) to show that any coherent sheaf is a quotient of a direct sum of line bundles (for precise statement and example see 2.2.6 and 2.2.6.1).
In summary, the statement of the theorem is : For $X$ a regular, Noetherian, separated scheme one has $K_0(X) \cong K^0(X)$.
The answer to your question is no, as pointed out by Antoine.
