genquery should fail when querying nonexistent targets, but if the target is the scope it doesn't
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Description
### Description of the bug:
the existence of a target in the scope of a genquery seems to create the target as a source file. I expect that genquery will not create targets other than itself.
### What's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.
```
genquery(
name = "query_nonexistent_target_deps",
scope = ["//:nonexistent_target"],
expression = "deps(//:nonexistent_target)",
)
```
building this query will succeed, with empty output. Running the same query with the CLI (`bazel query "deps(//:nonexistent_target)"` will error IF this genquery is not in the BUILD file, but also succeeds with empty output if this genquery is in the BUILD file.
another interesting data point: `bzl query --output=label_kind //:nonexistent_target` returns `source file //:nonexistent_target` if this genquery is defined, but errors otherwise.
### Which operating system are you running Bazel on?
Ubuntu 20.04
### What is the output of `bazel info release`?
release 6.1.0-0b9dc52a311198b1cde5c2df9403bb5e9529057f
### If `bazel info release` returns `development version` or `(@non-git)`, tell us how you built Bazel.
_No response_
### What's the output of `git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse master; git rev-parse HEAD` ?
_No response_
### Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
I don't see anything relevant
### Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
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