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This may be so, although many academic databases (Ebsco, ProQuest, etc.) do not follow this specification, exporting the metadata for several titles into one single multi-record RIS file (which can be then imported without issues into Zotero).
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Therein lies the root-cause misunderstanding of "who does what" in Calibre.
The "[File Type Plugin] Extract RIS Citations" is...a 'File Type Plugin'. Where does the 'File Type' come from? You, when you drag-and-drop it onto the Calibre GUI. Calibre then creates a single (1) book, automatically, from the file that
you just told it to by dropping it. Then, Calibre automatically invokes all File Type Plugins for that particular File Type (a.k.a. File Extension). This plugin is currently the only File Type Plugin for .ris File Types, so it gets invoked. It then does what it does to the (now pre-existing) .ris "book".
In short, this plugin
cannot create a new book. It works on only pre-existing (albeit only a millisecond old) books with a format of .ris.
This File Type Plugin was intended to import individual .ris files based on a specific DOI downloaded from, for example, sources such as ascopubs.org/doi/ and not at all from Zotero.
What you are asking for is a
brand new GUI Plugin, not File Type Plugin, that can do what Zotero does as regards importing .ris files into it from many academic databases.
Added: I am going to add a new Job Spy GUI Tool called "Split RIS File into Component RIS Tag Sets", which will populate the Calibre Auto-Add folder with the resulting multiple single-set .ris files created from a single selected multi-set .ris file.
DaltonST