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Yes copepods do eat zooplankton.

Zooplankto is an animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae. So you can say they eat that stuff.

and a copepo is a

minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish

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