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I think I'm gonna go with the fingering Horowitz mentioned, and just put in the hours to get it clean. The only thing that's got me in doubt is that there IS that one descending F#-7 arp, the second time on the way back down - it comes later and goes faster, breaking out of the rhythmic pattern - that one actually does sounds like a sweep. Maybe Django did that one different over 3 strings somehow.
btw I think I'm hearing a bum note in your A section, I'm at work now and I don't have my guitar or the recording with me to double check but it's the last 3 notes (that start from the D string). You're playing a tone and a tone but something sounds amiss (it should be a tone then a semitone, perhaps...)
Yes, most people would play that as a 16th note backward sweep but if you listen really carefully to the recording, it sounds like Django is also playing that bit on two strings. I think he plays the C# on the 1string and then slides down to A on the 1st string (he doesn't pick the note A) and then plays F# on the 2nd string. As always, I can't 100% confirm that's how Django did it but it sounds right and it's something you could do with two fingers.
I used to think that that 16th note descending arpeggio was the only instance of Django breaking the rules of Gypsy picking (I thought maybe he swept it somehow.) But even there I'm pretty sure he just used two strings to get the same effect, hence maintaining pure Gypsy picking.
And lastly I gotta admit it, I was so giddy to have done it at full speed (despite my intense face which my wife tells me all the time that I got to relax).
The video is first two A's played at 25%, then 50 and 100%:
Again, we may never know.
However, like Buco says, I think it's a myth that Django was constantly forced to play horizontally. He used distinct chord shapes in his improvisation that are closer to the "3 finger" system that wes, joe pas, benson, etc all use.... It's just that maybe in this case, it was way too fast to play it with 2 fingers, and this is not an improvisation but a melody that he probably wanted to nail perfectly despite playing an entirely wrong chord shape on the last A. In fact, that completely wrong shape might prove that he was doing it on two strings, because it's not a mistake that u can make if you're playing it on three strings.
Finally, before doing the ascending Fm arpeggio for the last pharse of the SECOND A section, he plays an Eb note before playing F Ab C Eb, and the Eb is played on the 8th fret of the G string, you hear that he's doing a sweep downstroke from Eb to F
here's a video of me explaining all this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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