Airport Extreme Upstairs conected via switch and cat6 to time capsule downstairs. Is it possible?

I have used an airport extreme connected to my cable modem for a while. This is upstairs in my office. Reception downstairs in my den was spotty at best. I had a time capsule I was no longer using, and set it up downstairs as an extender. This some what worked, but the reception was still hit or miss. I have now wired my house with Cat 6, and have a switch set up in my office. My question is: Is there any way to hard wire the time capsule in with the wired network, but still have it extend my wireless network? I would also be ok if it had to be a second wireless network all together. I forgot to mention, any time I hook the time capsule up to the network, either through the WAN port or one of the others, it seems to crash the network. Thanks!
The set up is as follows:
Cable Modem - Airport extreme - Switch - wall - Time Capsule (I hope). Any input would be appreciated.

OK, thanks for the info.
I assume that you have verified that the Ethernet cable is working at the end where the Time Capsule will be located. If not, temporarily connect the Ethernet cable to the laptop and turn off the wireless on the laptop.
Make sure that you can get a good Internet connection that way, which will verify that the Ethernet cable is working.
If you cannot get a good Internet connection this way, do not proceed until the issue has been resolved. Turn the wireless back on at the laptop when you are done with the testing.
With the Time Capsule powered on for a few minutes...but the Ethernet cable not connected yet....hold in the reset button on the back of the Time Capsule for 7-8 seconds and release. Allow a full minute for the Time Capsule to restart to a slow, blinking amber light.
Connect the Ethernet cable to the WAN "O" port on the Time Capsule
Click the fan shaped AirPort icon at the top of the Mac's screen and wait a few seconds for a listing of New AirPort Base Station to appear. Just below that, click on Time Capsule
(The screen shot below illustrates an AirPort Express instead of a Time Capsule)
As soon as you click on Time Capsule, AirPort Setup will open automatically and take a minute to analyze the network.
After a minute or so, AirPort Setup will indicate that the Time Capsule will be set up to "extend" the AirPort Extreme network.
Enter a device name that you want to use for the Time Capsule and click Next
AirPort Setup will indicate that the network is being setup to "extend using Ethernet". When you see the message of Set Up Complete, click Done.
The Time Capsule is now providing a wireless signal with the same name and password as the AirPort Extreme network, so devices will be able to move or "roam" from one area to another and stay on the same "big" wireless network.
If you want to assign a different name to the Time Capsule network, open AirPort Utility and click on the Time Capsule icon, then click Edit
Click the Wireless tab at the top of the window
Change setting for Wireless Network Name. You can keep the same password if you want, or assign new passwords for the Time Capsule network.
Click Update to save the new settings.

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