[CI] Build third-party dependencies in release with ninja

[dbarker]

Contributes to #3999

Changes

• Update ci/install_thirdparty.sh to use Ninja if available and default Release
• Update ci environment script to install ninja
• Clean up third party release file
• Update devcontainer docker file to build third-party deps from the third_party_release tags file

For significant contributions please make sure you have completed the following items:

• CHANGELOG.md updated for non-trivial changes
• Unit tests have been added
• Changes in public API reviewed

[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 90.18%. Comparing base (0066693) to head (3106d8b).

Additional details and impacted files

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  Coverage   90.18%   90.18%           
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  Files         230      230           
  Lines        7299     7299           
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  Hits         6582     6582           
  Misses        717      717           

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