I've been through this a couple times here's my experience.
Must people are doing these steps:
1) contribute to Traditional IRA
2) Convert to Roth
3) come next year high my investments lost money having second thoughts, I should recharacterize
4) When recharacterize then have the limit of the 30d or 1yr from the original conversion (step 2) whichever is longer
You're a bit different as you accidentally contributed to your Roth when you should have contributed to an IRA, we did the same thing when we become hit the income limit.
In this case you just rewind the clock as if you contributed the original amount as if you did a traditional IRA vs a ROTH.
I had this happen with Fideity and a quick phone call they were able to setup the reharacterization and move the money plus any gain (or loss) into the account. They will also generate all the necessary forms you need to easily stick it into TurboTax.
Since in your case you should only need to wait the 30d post recharacterization as you never did the original conversion -- but you can ask your financial institution for verification. Although, in my case they confused my conversion date with my recharacterization date so had to remind them

TIP: when you do your Traditional IRA to Roth do yourself a favor and stick it in a SEPERATE Roth account this will let you "reverse"/recharacterize that conversion if by next year your investments all went down and don't want to pay tax on gains that are no longer there (of course if you converted when you had no gain then this doesn't matter since all the money you already paid tax if it's all non-deductible amounts).
Also if you have a copy of turbotax you can also start playing with different scenarios and see how it all works. This can help you understand what's going on and he tax implications.
Good luck!
NOTE: I'm NOT a CPA nor do I play one on TV

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