The Chicago Manual of Style is generally my guide in these things, but I don't have my paper version ready to hand, and the online edition is behind a paywall.
However, they do have a handy Q&A section which is freely available. Do they have a definitive question and answer for you? No, they do not... but they do have quite a number of answers that contain the phrase. Out of six hits on a search for "vice versa", five of them are separated by a comma, and only one is not.
With a comma:
2.77: Cleaning up electronic files
"... If necessary, change the language settings of the manuscript and any subdocuments
(eg, from British English to American English, or vice versa). ... "
Without a comma:
13.28: Quotations and “quotes within quotes”
... For permissible changes from single to double quotation marks and vice versa,
see 13.7 (item 1); see also 13.61. For dialogue, see 13.37. ...
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