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One radio == one channel, so no, you cannot capture more than one channel per device at the same time.
You would need one device for each channel you want to capture on, in general, so you could end up with an array that looks like a porcupine of antennas. But do you really need to capture on all channels at the same time? There are other constraints or strategies that come in to play or can be used to limit the problem. If you can get away with only sampling the channels, cycle through the channels as you capture. If you need all traffic to troubleshoot problems, maybe the device is only 2.4GHz, so in FCC region you would only need to capture 3 channels: 1,6, and 11. If you are on 5GHz with no DFS, that could be 9 channels. Hopefully, you can find some other ways to limit the amount of work to do. Note also that WiFi does not go that far; so for a given capture system to see ALL these channels at the same time, in close proximity with high signal strength of devices, would be unusual.
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