Maximal determinant of $4n \times 4n$ matrix

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Find the maximal determinant of a $4n \times 4n$ matrix with $2n$ entries equal to $1$ and $2n$ entries equal to $-1$.


My attempt:

For $n=1$, we take the following matrix:

\begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & -1 & -1 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 2 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 2 \end{pmatrix}

But, instead of $2$ I would put any other value, so does this determinant diverge?