Remember that the source for this is at BEST a midrash — Seder Olam Rabbah — and that there is no chiyuv to accept literally any particular midrash. Kal v’chomer when the midrashic source Rashi quotes may have been a defective text. (His text of the gemara differs from ours in numerous places, and there is even one place where he quotes a Bereshit Rabbah that has a different spelling of a word in Chumash than we find in today’s sifre torah!) So while Rashi may have had ruach hakodesh, it was not a high enough level of prophesy to identify defective texts.
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