Setting Base Cases for Recursive Function - recursion

Question

class Solution {
//given a location on the matrix, this function recursively find the deepest possible depth, which is the length of a side of a found square
private int isSquare(int row_index, int col_index, int depth, char[][] matrix) {
int last_row = row_index + depth;
int last_col = col_index + depth;
if (row_index >= matrix.length || col_index >= matrix[0].length) {
return 0;
}
if (last_row >= matrix.length || last_col >= matrix[0].length) {
return 0;
}
for (int i = col_index; i < last_col; i++) {
if (matrix[row_index][i] != '1') {
return 0;
}
}
for (int i = row_index; i < last_row; i++ ) {
if (matrix[i][col_index] != '1') {
return 0;
}
}
return Math.max(depth, isSquare(row_index, col_index, depth + 1, matrix));
}
public int maximalSquare(char[][] matrix) {
int max = 0;
for (int row = 0; row < matrix.length; row ++) {
for (int col = 0; col <matrix[0].length; col ++) {
int curr_depth = isSquare(row, col, 1, matrix);
if (curr_depth > max) {
max = curr_depth;
}
}
};
return max * max;
}
}
Hi, I was working on LeetCode 221, and it seems like that my solution is not passing test cases with output 1, where the biggest square on the given matrix is just 1 x 1. To me it looks like those depth 1 cases are not passing the two for loops in function isSquare, which is supposed to catch 0s in the square.
I tried LC debugging tool but it did not help much, and my base cases seem fine to me. Please let me know what is going on here. For the problem, https://leetcode.com/problems/maximal-square/
One of the depth 1 test cases that I am failing is below.
Input:
[["0","1"],["1","0"]]
Output:
0
Expected:
1