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It's basically impossible to permanently damage a rim just by messing with the spoke tension. You can get the tension wrong, yes, and potentially get the rim quite far out of true. But it's nothing you can't undo. You do not need to buy a new rim.
Grab one of those Harbor Freight wheel balancing stands and stick something to it with a magnet to use as a pointer so you can see how and where the rim is out of true, i.e. not straight. It's easy, albeit time consuming, to get the rim straight again just by messing with the spokes via trial and error.
Get the rim true again and your problems will most likely disappear, unless your wobble is unrelated to the whackness of the rim.
Also: Trying to torque all of your spokes to the same value is a fool's errand, since they're not all identical to each other. The correct torque is the one that's A) not loose and wiggly, and B) and does not result in pulling the rim out of true. It's also maddeningly difficult to get an accurate torque reading on anything other than spokes and spoke nipples that are absolutely clean and brand new, because grit and dirt in the threads will interfere with the torque measurement. If your spokes go "ding" if you tap them with a wrench or similar, they are tight enough. If they go "clunk," they're not.
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