I got this same gradle error on an earlier install of Android Studio:
Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.0.2-bin.zip'.

So I downloaded a new one (BumbleBee) from the Studio site, and the same project causes the same error.

I can believe that I have something out of date in that project (which I zipped and copied from a different system).
What I have a hard time with is that Studio issues this error with no recommendation about what to do about it.

It shows this error in the Build errors area. I click on the link in the error and that downloads that gradle zip file just fine (though I don't know what to do with it).
So I'm stuck with a project that won't build, won't run, won't help me figure out how to make it do any of that.

But it turns out that this goes beyond my zipped/copied project.
In the same Studio instance, I created a new Basic Activity, which now gives me the same error. Gradle won't sync, project, won't build... nothing.

Build: AI-211.7628.21.2111.8193401, 202202170712,

AI-211.7628.21.2111.8193401, JRE 11.0.11+0-b60-7590822x64 JetBrains s.r.o., OS Mac OS X(x86_64) v12.2.1, screens 2880.0x1800.0, 2560.0x1440.0; Retina

AS: Bumblebee | 2021.1.1 Patch 2; Kotlin plugin: 211-1.5.30-release-408-AS7442.40; Android Gradle Plugin: 7.0.4; Gradle: 7.0.2; Gradle JDK: Amazon Corretto version 11.0.11; NDK: from local.properties: (not specified), latest from SDK: (not found); LLDB: pinned revision 3.1 not found, latest from SDK: (package not found); CMake: from local.properties: (not specified), latest from SDK: (not found), from PATH: (not found)

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