Magneto Kill Wire Constant Ground

This will be a long-winded post, my apologies.
 
I recently bought a Lawn Boy RE8e (52144A), and I was trying to get the electric start to work again.  When I purchased it, I was told that the only issue was that the ignition switch need a ground wire and it should work.  I took that word, tried it myself, and had no luck.  I have almost zero experience with small engines, but have some general automotive knowledge.
 
In my attempts to get this working in it's current state, I at one point had positive current running hot to the motor and it was back-feeding through the kill switch wire (caused some smoking, found it in time).  Long(er) story short(er), the ignition switch was missing wires AND there was no solenoid at all.  I have no since resolved all those issue, with the ignition switch having proper wires routed where they're supposed to be (hot, ground, solenoid, kill switch) and the solenoid installed and wired.
 
Everything is as it should be, except I have no spark.  I've found that my kill-switch wire has ground at all times, regardless of the key position AND regardless if the kill switch wire is connect to the switch or not.  I've attempted to unhook the battery completely and pull start the motor (which worked fine before) and it does not want to start via pull start either (didn't check for spark on the pull start though).
 
Does this me that I've smoked the magneto/coil in my electrical mistakes earlier....or do I have another issue somewhere else?
 
Thanks for help!