Results in view page with search api having multiple duplicate result
I solved my issue.
Turns out the filter TEMPLATE_views_pre_render function I programmed in was working, the problem was in the template it's self. I had tried to solve this problem on the template before trying this issue. 
Before I was trying to only allow $row 1 to return, which didn't solve my problem.
I then tried the _views_pre_render function, and saw that it was filtering but my view was not showing any data.
That is because only one row was being returned due to the _views_pre_render function, but the only row being returned was row #0, and in the template below I was specifying to only show row 1.

So, in conclusion, if you have views with search api and find that 

&lt;div class="row-fluid container-folio"&gt;

        &lt;div class="thumbnails"&gt;
        &lt;?php $lastItem = 0;?&gt;
            &lt;?php foreach ($rows as $row_number =&gt; $columns): ?&gt;    
                &lt;?php if($row_number == 1):?&gt;
                &lt;?php $array = array();?&gt;
                &lt;?php foreach ($columns as $column_number =&gt; $item): ?&gt;

                    &lt;?php if($item != null &amp;&amp; $item != "" &amp;&amp; strlen($item) != $lastItem):?&gt;
                        &lt;div class="span3"&gt;
                            &lt;div class="thumbnail2"&gt;                                                                
                                &lt;?php print $item?&gt;                                 
                            &lt;/div&gt;                  
                        &lt;/div&gt;
                        &lt;?php $lastItem = strlen($item) ?&gt;
                    &lt;?php endif ?&gt;


                &lt;?php endforeach; ?&gt;
                &lt;?php endif ?&gt;  
            &lt;?php endforeach; ?&gt;
        &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;  


So, in conclusion, if you have views with search api and find that the solution listed here,
Does not work for you, then your data returned to the _views_pre_render function is probably different due to your search api, and you should follow my BootstrapBlocks_views_pre_render function above, and you should be filtering out the duplicates.