php - Twilio - Sending vCard Not Rendering Properly

I'm trying to send a contact card (.vcf) via Twilio (php) and can't seem to get the vcf to render properly.

The .vcf saves to my server fine, and if I subsequently download the file from the server and open in an iMessage on my iPhone or Mac, it displays just fine. But when sending via Twilio, all I see is the .vcf contents in plain text.

Here's the code I'm using:

$account_sid = 'xxxxxxxx';
$auth_token  = 'xxxxxxxx';

$client      = new Services_Twilio($account_sid, $auth_token);

header('content-type: text/vcard');  
header('content-disposition: inline; filename= "testing2.vcf"'); 
                
try {

    $vCard = "BEGIN:VCARD\r";
    $vCard .= "VERSION:4.0\r";
    $vCard .= "N:Gump;Forrest;;Mr.;\r";
    $vCard .= "FN:Forrest Gump\r";
    $vCard .= "ORG:Bubba Gump Shrimp Co.\r";
    $vCard .= "TITLE:Shrimp Man\r";
    $vCard .= "PHOTO;MEDIATYPE=image/gif:http://www.example.com/dir_photos/my_photo.gif\r";
    $vCard .= "TEL;TYPE=work,voice;VALUE=uri:tel:+1-111-555-1212\r";
    $vCard .= "TEL;TYPE=home,voice;VALUE=uri:tel:+1-404-555-1212\r";
    $vCard .= "EMAIL:[email protected]\r";
    $vCard .= "END:VCARD";
 
    $path = '/var/www/xxxx/xxxx/testing2.vcf';
    file_put_contents($path, $vCard);

    $client->account->messages->create(array(
        'To' => $user_mobile,
        'MediaUrl' => ['https://www.example.com/vcfs/testing2.vcf'],
        'From' => "xxxxxxxxxxxx"
    ));
    
}

catch (\Services_Twilio_RestException $e) {
    
}
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EDIT

Here is the curl response I get from the URL used in MediaURL, indicating it is indeed a vcard format.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 04:13:29 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
Last-Modified: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 05:28:59 GMT
ETag: "15f-5bbfa320d710f"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 351
Content-Type: text/vcard
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