Disabling latex-auto-mk produces corrupted pdf

Bug description

No matter the engine configuration, when I disable latex-auto-mk I always get a pdf file that I cannot open in any viewer. Instead, when latex-auto-mk is enabled the pdf renders correctly.

Steps to reproduce

For example, for an input:

test.md

foobar

I have run quarto render test.md -t pdf with the following configurations:

_quarto.yaml

title: "foobar"
latex-auto-mk: false

_quarto.yaml

title: "foobar"
latex-auto-mk: false
pdf-engine: pdflatex

_quarto.yaml

title: "foobar"
latex-auto-mk: false
pdf-engine: xelatex

_quarto.yaml

title: "foobar"
latex-auto-mk: false
pdf-engine: latexmk
pdf-engine-opts:
  - '-auxdir=/tmp/quarto-aux'
  - '-emulate-aux-dir'

Expected behavior

A well-formed pdf is produced.

Actual behavior

This is what Preview shows for the resulting output:

Your environment

OS: macOS Sonoma 14.3.1

Quarto check output

Quarto 1.4.550
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.1.11: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.69.5: OK
      Deno version 1.37.2: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.4.550
      Path: /private/tmp/qenv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/quarto_cli/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: Installation From Path
      Path: /Library/TeX/texbin
      Version: 2023

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.11.8
      Path: /private/tmp/qenv/bin/python3
      Jupyter: 5.7.1
      Kernels: python3

[✓] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.3.3
      Path: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/r/4.3.3/lib/R
      LibPaths:
        - /Users/carlos/.rlibs/base
        - /Users/carlos/Documents/Util
        - /opt/homebrew/lib/R/4.3/site-library
        - /opt/homebrew/Cellar/r/4.3.3/lib/R/library
      knitr: 1.45
      rmarkdown: 2.25

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK