Sorry, I'm not sure that I'm reading this correctly. So the speedometer numbers for write and read are 1819/2229 MB/s, but disk drives are rated in Gbps
MB/s = Megabytes per sec
Gbps = Gigabits per sec
8 bits = 1 byte
So the those convert roughly to 14.5 and 17.8 Gb/s. Are these on an M1 Air? That better than the specifications for the M1 Air? I googled BlackMagic speed tests for the internal drive on the M1 Air and they come in at 2600-3000MB/s or abound 20Gb/s so an external drive is 3/4 the speed of an internal drive? Did I get this right?
Disk drives are absolutely not rated in bits per second, where are you getting this from? Except if you mean USB drives, but the Gbps in that case attempts to clarify what type of USB3 port is supported rather than indicating the speed of a drive. For example, USB 3.1 Gen 2 = USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 = SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps = USB 3.1 10GBps, with the last being currently most common in marketing materials. You can buy drives that support 10Gbps USB3 that vary in speeds from <100MB/s to slightly over 1GB/s, which will saturate the port. The whole point of this thread is that the drive Gbps ratings are especially useless on M1 Macs, since many drives will only connect with slower USB protocols than is supported, or will operate at significantly slower speeds than on PCs. As you've even seen yourself, when you searched for the rating of the internal drive, it was rated in MB/s not Mbps, which made your whole post trying to convert the external drive speeds from bytes to bits for comparison purposes completely unnecessary. Literally every single drive speed measurement tool and all drive marketing materials or specifications I have ever seen (and I've seen many, from many different companies), measure speed in bytes, not bits.
And to answer your question:
The absolute maximum data bus bandwidth of a TB3/4 port is 22Gbps, which can be reduced down to 8Gbps if the same cable/TB controller is used to connect to monitors. Therefore the absolutely maximum possible data transfer speed to a device connected to a TB3/4 port is 22Gbps/8=2.75GB/s or 2750MB/s. As you found out yourself, this is rather close to speeds of MBA's internal SSD and more generally, the rated speeds of currently most popular good PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSDs. So yes, with a high quality TB3 enclosure and a good NVMe drive inside it, you will be able to have your external drive reach read speeds close to 90-100% and write speeds 75-90% of those of thee internal drive.