Given the identity politics clusterfuck that this primary has become, I do think that a joint ticket is the only way to go. At this point, I'm aftaid that neither candidate could win without the other one. Whether they can even win together, given the acrimony between them and among their supporters (case in point, Samantha Power) remains an open question.
I hope you're correct. I've just never seen it this ugly. I've read and heard so many people on both sides of the Obama/Clinton divide say that they won't vote for the other candidate in the GE. And there's polling data that suggests that the Democratic electorate has become polarized as well.
