Issues with bootstrapping

[twiclo]

I'm trying to run the below command provided in the readme on a fresh VM:
$ nvim --headless -c 'autocmd User PackerComplete quitall' -c 'PackerSync'

I get many errors similar to this

Error detected while processing /home/twiclo/.local/share/nvim/site/pack/packer/start/nvim-ts-autotag/plugin/nvim-ts-autotag.vim:
line    1:
E5108: Error executing lua ...r/start/nvim-ts-autotag/lua/nvim-ts-autotag/internal.lua:2: module 'nvim-treesitter.configs' not found:
	no field package.preload['nvim-treesitter.configs']
	no file './nvim-treesitter/configs.lua'
	no file '/opt/neovim/.deps/usr/share/luajit-2.1.0-beta3/nvim-treesitter/configs.lua'

I think it's trying to read my config files before installing packages. Things seem to work better if I remove the PackerSync command where things will get installed but it hangs the console and has to be force quit which doesn't work for what I'm trying to do. Any guidance would be appreciated

My init.lua:

require("main")

[twiclo@momo nvim]$ ls lua/main/
ascii.lua  init.lua  packer.lua  remap.lua  set.lua

Packer.lua

local ensure_packer = function()
	local fn = vim.fn
	local install_path = fn.stdpath('data')..'/site/pack/packer/start/packer.nvim'
	if fn.empty(fn.glob(install_path)) > 0 then
		fn.system({'git', 'clone', '--depth', '1', 'https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim', install_path})
		vim.cmd [[packadd packer.nvim]]
		return true
	end
	return false
end

local packer_bootstrap = ensure_packer()

-- vim.cmd [[packadd packer.nvim]]

return require('packer').startup(function(use)
	use 'wbthomason/packer.nvim'

        ...Other plugins...

	if packer_bootstrap then
		require('packer').sync()
	end
end)