Focus screen latch not latching. Could I have flattened it out?

Changing focusing screen, old out, thin gold border shim is back in, new screen in. Latch wire goes down but I cannot get it to engage the latch and click back into place. I was using tweezers and not the specialty tool for this. I now feel like the latch does not protrude as much as it appears in images online.

Am I just not patient with it or could I have folded the latch down by pressing too hard trying to seat the wire with the tweezers?