Having lots of trouble creating a multicam clip with independently recorded audio in sync

I can't figure out why this isn't working and have tried it many different ways and many times. Here's the situation:
Video was shot on a Canon 5D Mark III and a Canon 7D (I suspect this may be part of the problem because the 5D has timecode capabilities and the 7D doesn't)
Primary audio was recorded on a Zoom H4N but each camera recorded audio also and the levels are all fine
I've tried the following to create the mutlicam clip of the interview with all audio and video in sync:
Naming the Camera Angle for each clip (Profile and Straight On)
Selecting all of the relevant video clips
Seleting all of the relevant audio and video clips
Synchronizing the video clips with the high quality audio clips (half of which I had to do by hand) and then selecting the sychronized clips to create the multicam clip
None of this works. In the end a multicam clip is created that is completely out of sync. I'm at a loss and would love any help!
Thank you.
Nick

I saw in a video tutorial (after trying to find solutions to this problem) that one should assign the independent audio to the same camera angle as one of the cameras. After assigning it to its own angle, it did much better but it loses sync about half way through now. Screenshot attached.
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