Hi,
Thanks for the reply, I went ahead and added some short code and also screenshoted how a google ad looks in the text widget. I gave a more extreme and less extreme example. I hope the images are helpful.
A little extra unintended space:

Note* obviously there is a certain amount of padding between content and the border but it looks like it thinks the content goes on longer than it should.

A lot of extra gap, this one is strange, when I adjusted the carousel to display 3 larger images instead of the 4 you see it reduced a portion of the extra space. Though still not enough to look practical.