Input 'submodules' not supported when falling back to download using the GitHub REST API with standard setup

I'm using standard hosted runner with standard actions/checkout@v3, but action is unable to checkout & pull my public repo submodule.
When I executed my pipeline I got:
Error: Input 'submodules' not supported when falling back to download using the GitHub REST API. To create a local Git repository instead, add Git 2.18 or higher to the PATH.

It's pretty weird that I'm using ubuntu-latest (20.04) and don't have Git >= 2.18 in PATH.

my pipeline:

jobs:
  build-and-test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    container: ghcr.io/kbegiedza/cuda:11.6.0-sdk

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      with:
        submodule: recursive

    - name: Configure CMake
      run: cmake -B ${{github.workspace}}/build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${{env.BUILD_TYPE}}

    - name: Build
      run: cmake --build ${{github.workspace}}/build --config ${{env.BUILD_TYPE}}

    - name: Test
      working-directory: ${{github.workspace}}/build
      run: ctest -C ${{env.BUILD_TYPE}}

Start by reproducing the workflow with the ghcr.io/kbegiedza/cuda:11.6.0-sdk container and inspect whether Git 2.18 or higher is available in PATH. Then trace actions/checkout@v3's GitHub REST API fallback with recursive submodules; done means the workflow checks out the public submodule successfully or documents the required container setup.