Yeah, I know I'm just frustrated at this point.
In my defense, I only 'rushed' after the cable was destroyed to try to fix it. I was being careful to make sure the cables were all inside the junction box, and that's the part that bothers me. The cables were all INSIDE, so it's not like it was hanging out and I just recklessly closed it without seeing. Everything was tucked away inside and taped down to keep it in place, or so I thought, so it was going well as far as I knew. From what I could tell after opening it the part of the cable that got damaged looked like it was crushed between the waterproof connector and the thicker middle part of the lid as it was being tightened.
Anyway, can't go back and undo it. Maybe I could have done something differently, but I just really want to be able to fix it now. I feel like the camera should still be working since it just seems like it should be a matter of fitting a new connector, but that hasn't helped. If I thought it would work, I'd go out and get a solder iron and splice it to a RJ45 instead of these cheap keystones that I have (it doesn't look like it's punching them in properly, the gauge is probably too small), but at this point I am concerned that this has somehow damaged the actual camera and don't know how to confirm that.
