Terraform -ssh: handshake failed: ssh: │ unable to authenticate, attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods remain ╵ - amazon-web-services

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I have my terraform code to ssh into a ec2 instance and i keep getting the error as below. Also, I am able to ssh into the instance from my local machine.
timeout - last error: SSH authentication failed (kali#:22): ssh: handshake failed: ssh:
│ unable to authenticate, attempted methods [none publickey], no supported methods remain
here is my code:
resource "aws_key_pair" "public_key" {
  key_name   = "public_key”
  public_key = "ssh-rsa xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}
data "template_file" "user_data" {
  template = file("../kali_linux_aws/payload.sh")
}
resource "aws_default_subnet" "default" {
    availability_zone = var.availability_zone
}
resource "aws_default_vpc" "default" {
  tags = {
    Name = "Default VPC"
  }
}
resource "aws_security_group" "kali_security_group" {
  name        = "allow_tls"
  description = "Allow TLS inbound traffic"
  vpc_id      = aws_default_vpc.default.id
  ingress {
    description      = "ssh"
    from_port        = 22
    to_port          = 22
    protocol         = "tcp"
    cidr_blocks      = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }
  ingress {
    description      = "rdp"
    from_port        = 3389
    to_port          = 3389
    protocol         = "tcp"
    cidr_blocks      = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
  }
  egress {
    from_port        = 0
    to_port          = 0
    protocol         = "-1"
    cidr_blocks      = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
    ipv6_cidr_blocks = ["::/0"]
  }
  tags = {
    Name = "kali_security_group"
  }
}
resource "aws_instance" "kali_linux" {
  ami                         = "ami-0f226738ik68873d1"
  instance_type               = var.instance_type
  availability_zone           = var.availability_zone
  associate_public_ip_address = true
  key_name                    = aws_key_pair.public_key.key_name
  user_data                   = data.template_file.user_data.rendered
  subnet_id                   = var.subnet_id == null ? aws_default_subnet.default.id : var.subnet_id
  vpc_security_group_ids      = [aws_security_group.kali_security_group.id]
 
  root_block_device {
    volume_size = var.volume_size
  }
}
resource "null_resource" "provision"{
  connection {
    type = "ssh"
    user = "kali"
    private_key = "${file("/Users/path/to/id_rsa")}"
    host = aws_instance.kali_linux.public_ip
  }
  provisioner "remote-exec" {
    inline = [
      "sudo apt-get update"
    ]
}
}
All i am trying to do is to create a kali linux EC2 instance on AWS and run some remote-exec commands. Can someone please help? Also if there are any workarounds please suggest as well. Thank you in advance.