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Appears that capture is working and it is a storage problem.
Storing large captures to esxi OS partitions is probably not good.
/tmp is 256M which matches when capture ends in the last comment above.

[root@esx1:~] vdf -h | tail -10
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Ramdisk                   Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
root                       32M        2M       29M   7% --
etc                        28M      184K       27M   0% --
opt                        32M        0B       32M   0% --
var                        48M      340K       47M   0% --
tmp                       256M       64K      255M   0% --
iofilters                  32M        0B       32M   0% --
shm                      1024M        0B     1024M   0% --
hostdstats                569M        3M      565M   0% --


Using /scratch is a better practice. The article below works through verifying the current location and how to configure if not present. If on a datastore check available space and configure total capture size to not overfill.
Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 7.x/6.x/5.x/4.x
"VMware recommends that ESXi has a persistent scratch location available for storing temporary data including logs, diagnostic information, and system swap."