SSH Error: data could not be sent to remote host - Trying to deploy to two different servers on two DO accounts

trellis
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I’ve looked at every thread with the topic at hand but I’ve yeilided no results. Right now I have a file structure like this:

group_vars
     -all
     -development
     -new_staging
          users.yml
           wordpress.yml
     -production
     -staging

hosts
     -new_staging

I have this in the new staging hosts file:

new_host ansible_host=204.48.17.0

[new_staging]
new_host

[web]
new_host

I also have set in the users.yml file under new_staging another ssh key that is different from other deploys.

(part of the file)
# Also define 'vault_users' (`group_vars/staging/vault.yml`, `group_vars/production/vault.yml`)
users:
  - name: "{{ web_user }}"
    groups:
      - "{{ web_group }}"
    keys:
      - "{{ lookup('file', '~/.ssh/new_staging.pub') }}"
  - name: "{{ admin_user }}"
    groups:
      - sudo
    keys:
      - "{{ lookup('file', '~/.ssh/new_staging.pub') }}"

I am basically trying to deploy to a digital ocean droplet between two different ips and two different ssh keys. I am able to connect to the ssh via terminal but it’s not working correctly for trellis. I have a multi site layout for trellis that has this layout:

Project
   - site1
   - site2
   - site3
   - trellis

so basically for site two I need to be able to push to two different DO droplets on two different accounts at different staging ips and ssh keys

This is the error I get now when I deploy:

SSH Error: data could not be sent to remote host "ip". Make sure
this host can be reached over ssh
fatal: [new_staging]: UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false,
    "unreachable": true
}

EDIT: Ended up figuring out that the known_hosts file was messing with me, after removing that it ran fine with this set up