Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig wl181.sendgrid.net. NS
Answer
wl181.sendgrid.net. 5 NS devin.ns.cloudflare.com.
wl181.sendgrid.net. 5 NS aisha.ns.cloudflare.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0