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Sam Nead
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As far as I understand your question, the answer is "no". Consider the Whitehead link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehead_link

The two components of the Whitehead link are unknots (thus they are isotopic) but they do not cobound a cylinder.

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