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There has not been income averaging for years except for farmers and fishermen,    2024 Instructions for Schedule J (2024) | Internal Revenue Service Use Schedule J (Form 1040) to elect to figure your 2024 income tax by averaging, over the previous 3 years (base years), all or part of your 2024 taxable income from your trade or business of farming or fishing. This election may give you a lower tax if your 2024 income from farming or fishing is high and your taxable income for 1 or more of the 3 prior years was low.    In order to qualify for this election, you aren't required to have been in the business of farming or fishing during any of the base years.    You may elect to average farming or fishing income even if your filing status wasn't the same in the election year and the base years.   This election doesn't apply when figuring your alternative minimum tax on Form 6251. Also, you don't have to refigure, because of this election, the tax liability of any minor child who was required to use your tax rates in the prior years.   About Schedule J (Form 1040), Income Averaging for Farmers and Fishermen | Internal Revenue Service

Using the TurboTax online editions you would need the Premium edition which is $139 with a state tax return an additional $64 - https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/online/premium/   Using the TurboTax desktop editions, any of the editions can be used - https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/cd-download/

Yes, there is no earned income to claim the Roth contribution thus it is disallowed. You may withdraw this this by April 15 or leave in your account, pay the 6% penalty and wait until next year. If a Roth IRA contribution is allowed next year (or any future year), excess contributions can be applied up to the contribution limit for that year and no longer subject to the penalty. 

If you have already extended, you can log back into your TurboTax account to generate the 1040-ES payment vouchers for 2025 by following the steps in this link.  Be sure to select yes instead of no on step 3 so you can adjust your earnings for 2025 if needed.   Also, any extensions can be made by using the steps in this link for your federal return or this link for your state if you have a state filing requirement.

Follow the instructions that @ThomasM125 sent you above and you'll be fine.  They should have returned you $8000 and some change.  Put the entire amount in box 1 and only the extra amount (which are the earnings) in box 2a.   @ghilliedhu1