Limit Natvis namespace variants to two ABI tags (#5877)

The generator wrote a namespace entry for every combination of ABI tags,
so nlohmann_json.natvis doubled with each new tag. With the 12 tags on
develop it had reached 57.9 MB, and one more tag would push it past
GitHub's 100 MB file limit. It now covers the default namespace, every
single tag, and every pair of tags (versioned and unversioned), which is
158 entries / 1 MB with 12 tags.

Taken over from #5868. Refs #5863.

Signed-off-by: Kartikey <kg704925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
Co-authored-by: Kartikey <kg704925@gmail.com>
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@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ at its root, a [Natvis](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/
file that gives `json`/`ordered_json` values a friendly, key/value debugger view instead of showing raw internal
fields, when debugging with the MSVC debug engine (`cppvsdbg`) in Visual Studio or VS Code.
The checked-in visualizers cover namespace variants with zero, one, or two ABI tags. Configurations with three or more
ABI tags are not covered and may show raw internal fields instead.
Debug engines that wrap LLDB instead of the MSVC debug engine (for example, `codelldb` in VS Code) only have
partial/experimental Natvis support, and commonly fall back to showing raw internal fields even with the
`.natvis` file present. Switching to `cppvsdbg` where available, or checking your debug extension's own Natvis