18 scrambled words in an unknown position gives 18! combinations = 6.4*1015 combinations. Here's a post I made a few months ago with some rough benchmarks:
Whoa, the odds is worse than I imagined, shame I haven't seen your benchmarks before.
I will still give btcrecover a try, even if it sounds as there is no hope... Fortunately there are not that many coins on the wallet. Not even 1 btc

Or you could try Dave's wallet recovery service:
www.walletrecoveryservices.comSee if the guy has other methods aside from bruteforcing through all of the possible of combinations.
BTW, Electrum only generates 12 words by default, did you manually created the seed phrase using the console/daemon? Or an imported BIP39 seed?
Because it's best clarify it so you wouldn't be selecting the wrong options in BTCRecover.